Prizes
Prizes have a modest cash value, primarily aimed at helping the winners to attend the conference, where the prizes are awarded and the judges make the following declarations:
- First prize
- is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers.
- Second prize
- is a fine programming tool for many applications.
- Third prize
- is also not too shabby.
- Winner of the lightning division
- is very suitable for rapid prototyping.
- Judges' prize
- are an extremely cool bunch of hackers.
Where a winning entry involves several languages, the winners are asked to nominate one or two. The languages named in the judges' declarations have been:
| Year | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Lightning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Cilk | OCaml | ||
| 1999 | OCaml | Haskell | ||
| 2000 | OCaml | OCaml | ||
| 2001 | Haskell | Dylan | ||
| 2002 | OCaml | C | ||
| 2003 | C++ | C++ | OCaml | |
| 2004 | Haskell | Haskell and C++ | Java and C++ | |
| 2005 | Haskell | Dylan | Haskell | |
| 2006 | 2D | D | Assembly | |
| 2007 | C++ | Perl | ||
| 2008 | Java | ML | ||
| 2009 | C++ | Java | ML | |
| 2010 | C++, Haskell, Python | Sage | ||
| 2011 | F# | Shell and C++ | ||
| 2012 | C++ | OCaml | Java |
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Famous quotes containing the word prizes:
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)