[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Peter Hinely]

>
> The core mission is, or at least historically has been, performance.
> If people want to expand the mission of the Shootout, if they want to
> make it very broad and encompass all aspects of language comparison,

Actually the mission of the shootout has always been a "comprehensive
language comparison", though maybe it wasn't implemented.

See Doug Bagley's original description:
  http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/index3.shtml

Quotes:
"When I started this project, my goal was to compare all the major
scripting languages. ...  I saw a need for a more comprehensive language
comparison than what I could find out on the Net, and you are reading my
solution."

Regards,
Peter