From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T22:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: new language shootout

Robert McGovern wrote:> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:11 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: new language shootout
>
>
> > > BTW, I wonder how do you think to rate the time required to implement
> > > something. I could take a week to write a quicksort in ML,
> but probably
> > > an MLer could do that in one minute.
> >
> > I don't really know right now, but any suggestion is very welcome. Maybe
> > I just try to find nice programming tasks where design really matters
> > and performance is pretty irrelevant, and just present the solutions
> > without any rating.
>
> Get the creator of each language to write the code? Really come up
> with a decent small but complex task and approach Wall, Gosling, Matz,
> Guido, Straustrope(?) and so on and ask them if they would be willing
> to participate. They could use whatever novel approach their language
> affords for doing it, it would be interesting to see the results.

Nice idea! Don't forget Alan Kay (Smalltalk), as well as OCAML and Haskell
(I don't know who created those).

Curt