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Historically, it's been dominated by OCaml, Haskell, and C++ (!) people. Is it just me, or has Lisp not placed once in the eleven years of the contest? In a f
by silentbicycle 17y ago
Historically, it's been dominated by OCaml, Haskell, and C++ (!) people.
Is it just me, or has Lisp not placed once in the eleven years of the contest?
In a frigging academic contest for functional programmers?
Where they were beat by assembly and TeX???
Ouch!
(In all fairness, they still have _Lisp in Small Pieces_, _Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming_, and _SICP_. Even if nobody uses the language for real programs, it's still in the running.)
- neilk 17y agoTeam SmartASS (a group of Googlers) wins or places high in that competition regularly, and they use Java.