Who ?

Team 12A0 for ICFP Programming Contest 2008, and its four members, Antoine, Jérémie, Michel and Romain, all students in 12A0 at the ENS Cachan, France

 

When ?

From July 12, 7pm UTC to July 14, 7pm UTC

 

Where ?

Jérémie was with Michel at Princeton University, Romain was at Carnegie Mellon University, all in the United States, and Antoine was at the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

 

How ?

Objective Caml as programming language; Darcs for version control, Gobby and Sobby for collaborative edition, Mumble and Murmur for audio conference; and two dedicated servers, one for programming, the other for services

 

Why ?

To show the world that Objective Caml is the best functional programming language ! We don't think we've succeded doing that; but we did it just for fun !

 

What ?

The source code in DarcsWeb, a nice screenshot of the graphical interface, and photos of Jérémie and Michel after about 1 day of intensive coding

 

And the results ?

We don't yet know ... come back later !

 

Conclusion ?

ICFP is great, and the Programming Contest is really fun ! We cheer you to participate next year !