2008 Competition
Submissions
The rules are few, inconsistent, contradictory, and far apart. Feel free to exploit any holes in them. Submissions have to be e-mailed to euc08@erlang-consulting.com by 12 PM GMT on Friday November 1st, 2008. If you have not received an e-mail acknowledging your submission contact us within 24 hours. Winners will be announced and awarded their prizes at the Erlang User Conference on November 13th, 2008.
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First Prize |
Second Prize An Erlang rosewood pen set. |
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| If necessary, a free code review and a free place on the Erlang Do and Don'ts seminar will be given to all winners. All prizes are donated by Erlang Solutions Ltd. | |
Rules
- Submissions must be fully working programs that do something meaningful.
- Submissions must come with compiling instructions and a description of what they do.
- Submissions may consist of a maximum of 500 lines, comments included.
- Submissions must compile in the OTP R11 release.
- Making the compiler crash will result in a pat on the back and an immediate disqualification.
- Taking hours to compile or generating obscure, unknown or undocumented warnings will however result in bonus points and possibly a special mention or a special prize.
- Bonus points will be awarded if no compiler or Dialyzer errors are generated.
- Submissions must be platform independent (This means they have to compile and run on Windows as well!).
- Anyone except for the judges are allowed to submit.
- Employees, relatives, friends and relations of the judges are encouraged to join and give bribes.
- Submissions may not be copyrighted, and after the competition may be made public and freely distributed.
Judges
This year's "Subject Matter Experts" are
Ulf Wiger, Ericsson, Sweden
Jan Nystrom, Erlang Solutions, UK
TBA, Academic institute of high standing, Somewhere
If you have any questions send an e-mail to euc08@erlang-consulting.com. Everyone is encouraged to participate and have a good laugh!
