# ICFP programming contest

## jmdrake@my-deja.com — 2000-08-28 14:36:50

    Hello.  I just noticed an announcement for the International

    Conference on Functional Programming contest in comp.lang.oberon.

    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/

    The challenge this year is to implement a functional ray tracing

    language  (named GML).  The syntax for this language is Forth-like,

    but more precisely it seems quit Joy-like to me.  I guess I have two

    questions.

    1) Would you consider GML to be concatenive programming language?

    2) What do you think it would take to implement GML in Joy?

    I suppose the most challenging part would be the graphical output

    itself.  But then the contest does allow for writing to a .PPM

    (portable pixel map) file.  It may be a little late to actually

    finish this in time for the contest, but it would still be a

    fun project.