[Shootout-list] Optimizing for speed vs. beauty

[John Goerzen]

There are two main reasons someone could find the shootout interesting:

1. Performance of various languages in various situations

2. Ease of solving different problems in various languages

It's often the case that the easiest solution isn't the best performer.
Perhaps it would be useful to allow two versions of each program: one
optimized for speed, one for, well, beauty.  Thoughts?

BTW, is this list the right place to send patches for the example
programs?

-- 
John Goerzen
Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715