Hello again,

And by the way, for a competitive task in limited time, I would strongly
recommand
Strongly typed language with pattern-matching (I do not want to say
functionnal because it does no differentiate C from OCaml that much).

Look at ICFP result counting,

OCaml, ML, Haskell in the strongly typed with pattern matching class
C, C++ in the other class
Ignoring other languages (no time to sort them accurately)

After a quick count you get 15 agains 9 for appearance in the table at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICFP_Programming_Contest

Clearly, you should also look at your current knowledge of each language ...

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