[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com
Thu, 19 May 2005 13:19:13 +0200


skaller wrote:
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> if a solution is gratuitously banned because it isn't
> 'the same way' then the Shootout is useless because lots
> of the languages here pride themselves in NOT doing everything
> the 'same way' as other languages. They all have novel features
> of there would be no point in having another language,
> so there has to be scope for these languages to demonstate
> what they're made of.

i agree with this.
i would also like to add that the scurrent design requierment that all 
tests must allow as many as possible of the languages to pass the test 
for all values of ''n'' is also making the shootout useless.


bengt