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Prizes have a modest cash value, primarily aimed at helping the winners to attend the conference, where the prizes are awarded and the judges make the following declarations: ; First prize: '' anguage 1' is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers. ; Second prize: '' anguage 2' is a fine programming tool for many applications. ; Third prize: '' anguage 3' is also not too shabby. ; Winner of the lightning division: '' anguage L' is very suitable for rapid prototyping. ; Judges' prize: '' eam X' are an extremely cool bunch of hackers. Where a winning entry involves several languages, the winners are asked to nominate one or two. The languages named in the judges' declarations have been: {, class="wikitable" , - ! Year ! First Prize ! Second Prize ! Third Prize ! Lightning , - , 1998 ,

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Contest at ICFP site
Programming contests

Past tasks

Prizes

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