ICFPC 2026
Sorry for jumping from topic to topic. One day I should collect all plots I started and finalize them somehow. But. It's the event I have been waiting for the whole year.
It's ICFPC 2026.
I have been taking part in it since 2008. It is not about a prize or anything. It's about learning something new and communicating with friends. Because of ICFPC I know about orbital motion and Sundman transformation. I like the idea of the Endo contest very much. The authors created a special rules of computing based on substring search and substitution. You had to write a highly optimized DNA executor and then solve tons of quests. Sand computers is also "a quest inside a quest".
It's very interesting to see what it will be this year.
It's already announced that there will be computation performed by little men. So, probably, the first task will be to write a highly optimized program, as in Endo and Sand computers. We will see.