[Shootout-list] Benchmark length (LOC)

Isaac Gouy igouy2@yahoo.com
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:30:04 -0800 (PST)


> What if we had a minimal ray tracer of, say, 75 lines in
> one of the high level languages?

75 lines in Javese sure - 75 lines in Haskellish would be more ;-)

imo we have a surfeit of indexed-access (array) stuff. So a math /
engineering / scientific problem without arrays (like mandelbrot) is
worth considering. Yet another loops & arrays program isn't.

We don't have for problems to exercise
- the ubiquitous list of functional programming languages
- binary io
- regex based on dna strings
...


		
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