Dyalog Ltd. is delighted to announce that the Grand Prize winner of this year’s programming contest has been awarded to Mr Hayato Hashimoto, a 21 year old undergraduate student at Kyoto University in Japan.
Upon learning that he submitted the winning entry Mr Hashimoto commented, ”I am very proud to have won the first price. I found the contest website when I was searching about APL on the web. I have been fond of Lisp, and since this language focuses on lists – instead of arrays – and functions, I quickly got familiar with APL. I was impressed by the unique array-centric nature of APL when I proceeded to study the language further, in order to write APL code to solve the contest problems. I found that arrays and their functions helped the programming, especially when solving problems involving multi-dimensional structures or patterns. I even got to the point when I thought it would be nice if I could grasp arrays out of the computer and manipulate them by hand. I am very much looking forward to attending the Conference in Denmark and I appreciate the opportunity to present my work”.
