[Shootout-list] Weekly Update

[Brent Fulgham]

On 2004-09-22 08:48:59 -0700 Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> 4.  A couple of new tests ... They are aimed at showing off some of 
>> Erlang's strengths by requiring
>> lots of message passing (in the case of the new "ringmsg" test) and
>> loading of plugins (in the case of the new "plugin"
>> test).
> 
> I like Erlang, and that motivated me to complete missing Erlang tests
> on the Win32 Shootout.
> imo adding a test to show-off the strengths of a language is not
> keeping the spirit of honest comparison. It's simple advocacy.

Isaac, you are misinterpreting what I said.  I am not stacking the 
deck in favor
of Erlang.  Instead, I know that Erlang was designed to solve a 
particular
category of problem.  This test "tests" this category.  We should see 
how
other languages are able to solve it.  If they cannot, that exposes a 
weakness
in their implementation, just as string processing exposes weaknesses 
in
Erlang's implementation.

-Brent