Clojure for the ICFP 2009 contest?
So the programming contest for the 12th International Conference on Functional Programming is coming up soon -- June 26th - 29th. Last year team Foognostic submitted a Ruby-based solution which made it to the second round. This year we will take another stab at it, this time with Clojure. Anyone else interested?
Last year I installed Trac to help organize things and that was fun, but this year I think BitBucket is the way to go. More features that someone else maintains -- woo!
This year another Foognostic solution will be submitted, barring unexpected events that weekend. For the sake of trying to look cool I will be using Clojure, mostly as an exercise to really explore a Lisp. I'm more familiar with Emacs Lisp, but Clojure is sitting right on top of all those featuriffic Java APIs.
The countdown timer stands at a little more than two weeks. That should be enough time to come up to speed, right? ... or have I just uttered famous last words?
In any event, watch this space for updates!
- The ICFP 2009 contest site.
- The ICFP 2008 task description.
