Comments on: ICFP programming contest reflections

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:40:30 +0000

That’s too bad about the submission! My team (me and one other person) also failed, at the last minute, to submit anything. We wanted to submit source code (as opposed to a static binary), and I was trying to get the haskell network package to compile properly with Cabal using a custom package db. Because I was occupied with all this for (at least) the last 40 minutes of the contest, I didn’t notice the email that said, “the network package will be present running trials.” Agh.

But if someone puts up a public server, we’ll definitely submit to it.

By: Call for an ICFP Mars Server! « blog :: Brent -> [String]

Call for an ICFP Mars Server! « blog :: Brent -> [String] — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:03:45 +0000

[...] Yes, I realize this poses various security risks and technical challenges. And yes, I realize I should just shut up and do it myself, except I don’t really have the requisite technical know-how to set up such a server. And yes, of course part of my motivation in suggesting this is that my team failed to actually make a submission. [...]

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:36:14 +0000

Johan: indeed, it is a real shame. Hm, it would be really cool if someone will put up a server where you could submit rovers and also new worlds, and have an ongoing tournament with up-to-the-minute scores! This would be completely separate from the actual ICFP contest of course, but then people could get some real feedback, and we could at least submit our bot somewhere… =)

Shae: I know, it’s weird! There’s something strange about the wordpress feed, or something strange about the way the Planet software interprets the wordpress feed, or… I really have no idea.

By: Shae Erisson

Shae Erisson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:46:16 +0000

Hey, this post doesn’t link correctly on planet.haskell.org, not sure why.

By: liesen

liesen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:32 +0000

I had a great time too. As you say, the geographical and time separation was a problem. We had some good momentum on saturday evening here in Zürich working on the basic stuff. It’s really a shame that we missed the deadline. We definately should’ve continuously packaged and sent in submissions to at least have something.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:46:33 +0000

Hi Tim,

Cool! I’ll have to check with my teammates but hopefully we can post our code somewhere. We may actually keep developing it just for fun, in which case it would also be neat to have a public repository.

By: Tim Docker

Tim Docker — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:33:03 +0000

I enjoyed the comp too, but wasn’t sufficiently committed to it to get a completed entry done in time. Interestingly, I also implemented quadtrees and A* in haskell also. I’d be keen to have a look at your implementation.