International Conference on Functional Programming
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The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) is an annual computer science academic conference sponsored by the ACM SIGPLAN. The conference focuses on functional programming and related areas of programming languages, logic, compilers and software development.
The ICFP began in 1997 as a merging of two conferences: Functional Programming and Computer Architecture (FPCA) and Lisp and Functional Programming (LFP).
The ICFP also has also held an open annual programming contest since 1998, called the ICFP Programming Contest.