[racket] Fwd: ICFP Programming Contest 2011

Could anybody tell whether the plt-scheme package available for Debian
Squeeze is "good enough" to compete?

Version 4.2.1.
http://packages.debian.org/pt/squeeze/plt-scheme

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Rodolfo Carvalho


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 09:03, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> Racket has yet to win or place at one of these contests.
>
> Robby
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eijiro Sumii <eijiro.sumii at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:00 AM
> Subject: ICFP Programming Contest 2011
>
> Dear functional programmers,
>
> We have published the following announcement at:
>
>  http://www.icfpcontest.org/
>
> Please enjoy,
>
>  Eijiro Sumii (2011 Contest Chair)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    ICFP Programming Contest 2011
>
>                     http://www.icfpcontest.org/
>
> The ICFP Programming Contest 2011 is the 14th instance of the annual
> programming contest series sponsored by The ACM SIGPLAN International
> Conference on Functional Programming.  This year, the contest starts
> at 00:00 June 17 Friday UTC (= 24:00 June 16 Thursday UTC) and ends at
> 00:00 June 20 Monday UTC (= 24:00 June 19 Sunday UTC).  Unlike in
> previous years, there is no 24-hour lightning division.
>
> The task description will be published in this blog when the contest
> starts.  Solutions to the task must be submitted online before the
> contest ends.  Details of the submission procedure will be announced
> along with the contest task.
>
> This is an open contest.  Anybody may participate except for the
> contest organizers and members of the same laboratory as the the
> contest chair's.  No advance registration or entry fee is required.
>
> Participants may form teams.  A team consists of every person who
> contributes ideas and/or code towards a submission.  Teams may have
> any number of members.  Individuals may only be members of a single
> team and teams may not divide or collaborate with each other once the
> contest has begun.
>
> Any programming language(s) may be used as long as the submitted
> program can be run by the judges on a standard Linux environment with
> no network connection.  Details of the judges' environment will be
> announced later.
>
> There will be prizes for the first (US$1,000) and second ($500) place
> teams as well as a discretionary judges' prize ($500).  There will
> also be a total of $6,000 travel support.  (The prizes and travel
> support are subject to the budget plan of ICFP 2011 pending approval
> by ACM.)
>
> In addition, the organizers will declare during the conference that:
>
> - the first place team's language is "the programming language of
>  choice for discriminating hackers",
>
> - the second place team's language is "a fine tool for many
>  applications",
>
> - and the team winning the judges' prize is "an extremely cool bunch
>  of hackers".
>
> Additional announcements about the contest will be made at
> http://www.icfpcontest.org/.  Questions can be posted as comments to
> the blog or e-mailed to icfpc2011-blogger AT kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
> (please replace AT with @).
>
> We look forward to your participation!
>
> The contest organizers: Hidehiko Abe, Yumi Arai, Kenichi Asai
> (observer), Noriko Hirota, Atsushi Igarashi (observer), Lintaro Ina,
> Kazuhiro Inaba, Arisa Iwai, Chihiro Kaneko, Shinya Kawanaka, Moe
> Masuko, Yasuhiko Minamide (observer), Ryosuke Sato, Yu Shibata, Yu
> Sugawara, Takeshi Tsukada, Kanae Tsushima, Yayoi Ueda, and Eijiro
> Sumii (chair).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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