Survey

This survey was announced by the organisers. This is our filled in answer:

Team Name: Formicoideas

2 Team members (and nationalities):

• Georg Martius (Leipzig/Germany)
• Jörg Endrullis (Leipzig/Germany)
• Allan D. Clark (Edinburgh/Scottland)

3 Web pages:

• Project page: http://www.flexman.homeip.net/space/ICFP+2004
• Personal pages:

• Georg: http://www.flexman.homeip.net
• Jörg:
• Allan:

4 Person-hours spent:

• Georg: 45
• Jörg:
• Allan:

5 Tools/programming languages used:

• Haskell
• Java
• Phec (Pheromon language) :-)

6 Computing platform(s):

• 2x Linux PC with Athlon 1400Mhz 256MB and ??
• 1x Windows PC

7 Prior ICFP contest experience:

• Georg: 2002, 2003
• Jörg: 2003

8 How did you hear about the ICFP competition?

Haskell and OCaml mailing lists.

9 What is your programming experience?

• Georg: Haskell: experienced (3 years)
• Joerg: Java:
• Allan: Haskell: rookie, but OCaml and ML experience.

10 Rate the difficulty level of this year's task: (0 - 10) 0 = way too easy 10 = way too hard:

7

11 Did you have fun?

Indeed

12 Did you finish the competition and submit a solution?

Yes

13 Let us know what you liked/disliked about this year's task.

Last two years you could submit a solution earlier on and the latest submussion was taken. I missed that!

14 Please give us any suggestions/comments for future contest organizers: