[Shootout-list] MLton missing - a great marketing tool

[Chris Clearwater]

>Fair to whom? 
>We're trying to be fair to someone coming across the website for the
>first time, as-well-as language geeks.
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What do you consider the average usage pattern of the shootout to be? Do 
you feel that having more implementations would scare someone away from 
the site? I think it would lend to the site's credibility. It would 
highlight that it is a large community effort, not just a bunch of 
random tests.

>There are currently 26 language implementations on 'The Usual' (plus
>This Month's Featured Language). That's maybe 3 times more than
>'ordinary' programmers deal with each week. 
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>(I don't recall, did Doug Bagley's original website show more than 27
>language implementations?)
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That is one way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is that it 
featured all the languages :-)

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>Search is King! If you want 'The Great' to be 'the default category'
>then spend some time searching for websites that link to Shootout, and
>email the webmasters asking that they update the URL to 
>   http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/
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Excellent point.

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>We already have - languages that don't implement enough tests should
>only appear in 'The Sandbox'. (We aren't enforcing that at-the-moment
>because we just rewrote a lot of tests.)
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I guess I still don't understand exactly what the criterion for "The 
usual" category is. If it is popularity, perhaps you could use Debian's 
popularity-contest data (http://popcon.debian.org/) to determine the 
"The usual" entries?