[Shootout-list] request to put MLton on "The Usual" page

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2005-06-08 07:28, John Skaller wrote:
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> I do not like the 'Usual'/'Greater' split at all. For me it 
> destroyed the work I put in, because it fails to allow
> a system to compete on merit.

i think i understand this feeling. the reason i want to change the 
shootout to a design that allows more ''n'' is that the current narrow 
focus makes it neccessary to have artificially hobbled test. these tests 
does not allow more meritorious languages to show what they can do since 
that would make the worse languages fail.


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> I would rather see ONE web site, and a way of filtering
> the huge set of language and tests to show a smaller
> data set that is more comprehensible.

i think that the 'Usual'/'Greater' split is such a filtering. it is just 
not done on merit, but on some other data point. that data point is 
presumably documented somewhere, but i do not know what it is.


bengt