[Shootout-list] Two notes: Pascal and CMUCL

[Bengt Kleberg]

Aldo Calpini wrote:
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> may I suggest something like: 
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/lang_overview.html ?
> 
> it was something I never really finished, but you can get the idea.
> 
> IMHO, instead of building a huge list of all potential flavours of 
> languages (eg interpreted, compiled, bytecoded, bytecoded but JITted, 
> etc.) we would do better by assigning to each language (implementation) 
> a series of flags. something like:
> 
> - can be interpreted: YES/NO
> - requires compilation: YES/NO
> - produces bytecode: YES/NO
> - produces native executables: YES/NO
> - requires a runtime library: YES/NO
> - does JIT compilation: YES/NO
> - ....

i think this is a good idea. it will require work, but here is a 
starting point.

another solution is to only have pointers to the languages home pages on 
the shootout website. but then we should not imply that there are only 2 
categories, and not mention the reality.


bengt