[Shootout-list] Stuff

[Isaac Gouy]

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> Such non-trivial problems don't belong in the Shootout, as far as I'm
> concerned. Personally, I'd like to see a test that deals with the
> speed and ease of handling various Unicode encodings. As it turns
> out, the majority of languages can't handle such a test (without
> external libraries) and, as such, it's unlikely such a test will be 
> added to the Shootout.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

>From the comp.lang.tcl
"And it would be fascinating to add additional tests that play to Tcl's
strengths (e.g. converting a 1MB file from UNICODE to one of those ISO
2022 encodings.)" 

Asking the author to come-up with something a little more specific
resulted in ... nothing. Difficult to accept or reject.







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