Functional programming is an elegant programming style where we use functional languages to write mathematically pure functions. The outputs of these pure functions depend only on the input parameters and not on the state of the program. Hence, these programs have almost negligible side effects.
Problem Setters Boleyn Su, Alex, Grant Boudreaux, Deepak Gupta and Abhiranjan.
Problem Testers scturtle, Stimim Chen, Lalit Kundu and Abhiranjan.
You can solve this contest in any of these functional languages: Haskell, Scala, Lisp, Erlang, Clojure, OCaml and F#.
Lambda Calculi May'14 had a whopping 161 participants out of 839 who signed up for the contest and made 1431 submissions in total
Fastest Solver: anta0 in 2 hours and 45 minutes
Most Accurate Solver: Tomohiro Oka with all 5 perfect submissions.
Most Consistant Solver: Shimi Zhang with 65 submissions
Participation country wise: India > United States > Ukraine = China > Russian Federation
Participation university wise: Students from 52 universities across the globe participated in the contest.
Perfect scorer in all lambda-calculi: Po-Hsiang Hao, Pavel Lepin and Tomohiro Oka
Perfect scorer in last lambda-calculi: anta0, jthread, Po-Hsiang Hao, Tomohiro Oka, Stimim Chen, wood6, Patrick Spettel, Terence, boleyn_su, Shimi Zhang, aha66, Юрий Горшенин, Pavel Lepin, Chao SHEN, Joseph Abrahamson, Valerii Ryzhuk