Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs (1994) [pdf]
This is a long time ago, but I remember coming across this competition when studying software architecture for my Diplomarbeit.<p>IIRC, the Haskell solutions were disqualified, and actually for good reasons.  The competition was about architecture of the system, with the geo<i>server</i> an example component.  Notice that for example Rapide is an Architecture Description Language (ADL).<p>As far as I can tell, the Haskell team(s) only concerned themselves with the (purposely) simplistic&#x2F;simplified functionality of the geoserver component, and not the architectural concerns that were the actual point of the competition.<p>Which, quite frankly, is something I see frequently from the FP community:  declare that &lt;complicated actual problem&gt; is <i>really</i> &lt;much simpler problem easily solved by FP&gt;, solve the simpler problem that ignores almost all the real requirements, declare victory and go home.