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jcc7



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:07 pm    Post subject: ICFP 2004 Contest Reply with quote

ICFP has an annual programming contest where programmers from across the world compete with their languages of choice to to see who can do the best job. This year the conest is in June 4-7.

From ICFP 2004 official website:
Start: Friday June 4, 2004 - 16:00 UTC (12:00 noon EDT)
Finish: Monday June 7, 2004 - 16:00 UTC (12:00 noon EDT)

There was a team of D programmers last year, and I think it'd be a shame if no one represented D this year. I don't have any plans that weekend (actually the plans I had were cancelled).

I'm inviting others to help me show the world that D is a force to be reckoned with. Last year's team didn't find a solution in time, but the D compiler is more mature now and I think a somewhat larger team might help (last year's team was 3 or 4 members). I'm sure that the D community is larger today than it was a year ago.

The challenge isn't published until June 4, 2004, so it's not like we're really running behind. I've included some references below in case someone wants to try to catch up a little with what happened last year.

Tell me what you guys think. Anyone want to donate few hours or a few days to the cause? (You know it'll be fun!)

D team's planning for ICFP 2003
The beginning of discussion for last year's team.
The IRC Server
The Wiki pages

After last year's competition
The D Team Wrap Final Report
The D Experience
Official results from last year (bragging rights for the winners)

ICFP 2004 on the D newsgroup
This year's discussion
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Hohums



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Note that I'm in, but... You have dsource this time. Parhaps you could get brad to get a project setup before the comp and add all the members.
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jcc7



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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hohums wrote:
Note that I'm in, but...
I should've asked a long time ago... Do you mean "I'm in," "I'm not in," or "I might be in"?

And if it's just me, there's no reason for Brad to set up a project in SVN. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol, sorry, I mean

Not that I'm in.

I often put an 'e' on not, I don't know why its just an annoying habit.
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jcc7



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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hohums wrote:
I often put an 'e' on not, I don't know why its just an annoying habit.
Sometimes I type "a" when I mean "I".

I thought that's what you were saying. Since no one else replied to this topic, I might be pretty be pretty lonely on ICFP weekend. Oh, well...
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im down. Are you still interested ? If so Ill look over past projects and those that placed.

Charlie
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jcc7



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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:41 am    Post subject: ICFP Reply with quote

qbert wrote:
Im down. Are you still interested ?
Yes.

qbert wrote:
If so Ill look over past projects and those that placed.

Charlie
Right, the history page has links to past task descriptions and how the teams responsed. I've looked at some of them and there doesn't seem to be any particular trend.
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok cool , so is there any prep work we can do ?
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jcc7



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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 12:21 pm    Post subject: ICFP Schedules Reply with quote

qbert wrote:
Ok cool , so is there any prep work we can do ?
I don't know. I guess we could post our tentative schedules on a wiki page. I might take a day off work to add some more Y's to list (I haven't used a vacation day in a while).
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok cool sounds good, let me know what you need me to do. Reading your post I just realized your from Edmond, I have a friend that just moved there Smile. Its right outside OKC right ?

Do you think we should recruit more on D Forum ?
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jcc7



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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:10 pm    Post subject: ICFP Reply with quote

qbert wrote:
Ok cool sounds good, let me know what you need me to do. Reading your post I just realized your from Edmond, I have a friend that just moved there Smile. Its right outside OKC right ?
Yep. It's a small world.

qbert wrote:
Do you think we should recruit more on D Forum ?
On the general D newsgroup? There have been a few posts about ICFP and they haven't gotten much response, but maybe I haven't sold the concept well enough. (Actually, one post was quite a while back and the more recent one a reply to an unrelated topic. Embarassed) I think a larger team would be great. If you could recruit some more help, that'd be great.

I'm thinking if there's more than 2 of us, we should ask Vathix to set up a special IRC channel for us. I've already asked Brad to set up something on SVN.
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Hohums



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would be cool if you could convince Walter | Mathew to join. Probably not very likly. Walter is into promoting D (of couse), so if this comp is big enough, parhaps you can convice him.
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