Objective Caml: a serious contestant

Objective Caml performs quite well at the ICFP programming contest. In the six editions of this contest, programs written in Objective Caml obtained the first place three times, the second place twice, the third place once, and the "lightning division" prize once.

Objective Caml was described by the ICFP Contest judges as

the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers

and

a fine programming tool for many applications.

The Sixth annual ICFP Programming Contest (2003)

Lightning division prize: MiMtim (Cezary Kaliszyk, Lukasz Lew, and Dominik Sidorek).

22 OCaml programs among the 118 submissions.

The Fifth annual ICFP Programming Contest (2002)

First place: team TAPLAS (Yutaka Oiwa, Eijiro Sumii, and Tatsurou Sekiguchi).

21 OCaml programs among the 160 submissions.
5 OCaml programs among the 20 selected for round 2.
2 OCaml programs among the 8 selected for round 3.
1 OCaml program among the 2 finalists.

The Fourth annual ICFP Programming Contest (2001)

Third place (ex-aequo): [b8]_clan.

34 OCaml programs among the 171 submissions.
3 OCaml programs among the 10 finalists.

The Third annual ICFP Programming Contest (2000)

First place: PLClub.
Second place: Camls 'R Us.

6 OCaml/OLabl programs among the 39 entries.
2 OCaml programs among the 10 finalists.

The Second annual ICFP Programming Contest (1999)

First place: Camls 'R Us.

6 OCaml/OLabl programs among the 37 entries.
3 OCaml/OLabl programs among the 8 finalists.

The First annual ICFP Programming Contest (1998)

Second place: ENS camlists .

Number of OCaml programs among the entries unknown.
1 OCaml program among the 6 finalists.

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