[Shootout-list] ANNOUNCEMENT Committers, Workflow, When will my program appear?

[Robert Seeger]

..."But there are a lot of folk who program in Java"...

Score one for the Understatement Of The Day ;)

Rob Seeger


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:34:27 -0800 (PST), Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > For the benchmarks I do write, especially tricky ones like the large
> > one you're afraid of, I can write it in multiple languages. I've
> > completed C++ and Python. Ocaml is going to be next. I'm loathe to
> > write java, but I can look into it if you would prefer (this seems to
> > be your pet language). The SML/NJ should be close to the Ocaml one.
> > The C one will be a pain in the neck, but I'll see if I can do it.
> > The Fortran will also be a pain in the neck. Haskell will either
> > resemble ocaml, or it will be implemented using type classes.
> 
> Please try and figure-out short benchmarks - I have some confidence
> that  people will understand and contribute programs that are <100
> lines
> 
> (Here's the problem - are you sufficiently expert in all the languages?
> Scheme? Lisp? Ruby? Smalltalk?)
> 
> And Java is a long way from being my "pet language" :-)
> But there are a lot of folk who program in Java, so it's interesting to
> compare other languages to Java.
> 
> 
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