Monday, February 21, 2005

The ICFP 2005 competition has been announced. Interesting change to this competition: This year's competition rewards programmers who can plan ahead. As before, we'll announce a problem and give you three days to solve it. Two weeks later, we'll announce a change to the problem specification and give you one day to adapt your program to the new spec. And you guessed it: the second half will be worth considerably more than the first. 3:21:35 PM

Slava Pestov announces the 0.72 release of Factor, and has an article on how you can explore the list of object instances and references to objects. 3:18:16 PM

Interesting blog post (site no longer available) from Joel Reymont on how he is architecting his poker server in Common Lisp. It explores the use of a continuation based approach (similar to the way continuation based web servers work) vs state machines. 3:15:44 PM