[Shootout-list] Directions of various benchmarks

[Brent Fulgham]

--- Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@ericsson.com> wrote:
> if "the test should work like this Java program"
> really means
> 1 this algorithm
> 2 these constructs
> 3 not these obvious shortcuts, they negate the point
>   of the test.
> 
> then i think it is much better to use 1-3 than to
> say "work like this Java program". sure it is much
> longer, but it is much easier to understand.

This seems reasonable.

Can anyone volunteer to help write the benchmark 
specifications?

Can we agree on what constitutes pseudo-code?  Given
my choice, I would describe all algorithms in Scheme
and be done with it! ;-)

How can we judge if a declarative language meets
an imperitive specification?

-Brent