Functional Programming Contest - September'14

A contest for functional programming enthusiasts.

The contest has ended

The contest hosts 7 challenges ranging from algorithms to logics to compilers.

Problem Setters PaweĹ Kacprzak, Joseph Abrahamson, Wanbo, Abhiranjan.

Validators Javran (Fang) Cheng, Ray Williams Robinson Valiente, Wanbo, Abhiranjan.

Languages allowed: Haskell, Scala, Lisp, Erlang, Clojure, OCaml and F#.

Want to contribute problems? Mail to hackers@hackerrank.com with the subject "Lambda Calculi".

The Prizes

Details from Lambda Calculi July'14

Lambda Calculi July'14 had a whopping 202 participants out of 1124 who signed up for the contest and made 1284 submissions in total
Fastest Solver: rbocquet in 29 hours and 58 minutes
Most Accurate Solver: Kyumin Kim and Emin Karayel with 15 submissions.
Most Consistant Solver: scturtle with 48 submissions.
Participation country wise: People from 44 countries participated - India > United States > China > Japan = Russian Federation = Ukraine.
Participation university wise: Students from 86 universities across the globe participated in the contest.

Exceptional Performers

Perfect scorer in all lambda-calculi: Pavel Lepin.
Perfect scorer in last lambda-calculi: rbocquet, scturtle, avolchek, Kyumim Kim, Emim Karayel and Pavel Lepin.

Lambda Calculi July'14 Winners

Rules

  • All the challenges will have a predetermined score.
  • This contest will appeal to programmers who're interested in Functional Programming
  • HackerRank admins decision will be final
  • Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
  • Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification of both the users from the contest. We've a fairly good plagiarism detector that works at the opcode level.
  • You can code directly on our interface. We support all 7 major functional languages. You can have a look at the environment in which we run your code
  • Sample code to print sum of two numbers in all major languages Samples