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ah, Dylan! I remember from far 2005 a team called "Dylan Hackers" who earned both the judges' prize and the second prize at the ICFP Contest (cop & robbers), http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/.

Here the blog post describing their entry: http://www.hoult.org/bruce/icfp2005/

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Indeed, ICFP 2001 was the only time I ever heard of someone using Dylan, and 2005 was the next and last time.

In 2001, the Dlyan Hackers placed #2, but the #1 team had a team member named Dylan (Thurston)

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/01/09/07/0131231/icfp-2...

and IIRC, in that 2005 cops-and-robbers game, the game rules invited complex strategies, but the game wasn't balanced, so degenerate strategies dominated, and the competitiveness was over details of implementation.

Dylan did well in multiple ICFP contests IIRC.

The team is infinitely more important than the language, and the Dylan Hackers team was top notch.

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