[Shootout-list] Weekly Update

[Brent Fulgham]

On 2004-09-22 08:48:59 -0700 Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> imo adding a test to show-off the strengths of a language is not
> keeping the spirit of honest comparison. It's simple advocacy.

No.

Limiting our tests to tasks that play to C's strengths is unfair.  
Asking C and other
languages to do something real people have to do on a daily basis 
(such as
handle thousands of web requests, or process PBX interchange) is 
reasonable.

-Brent