From: Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T04:10:36+09:00
Subject: Re: new language shootout

> > 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.
> 
> Well I think it will work better as a community-thing. I try to write
> down specifications of small but complex programs, create a ruby
> version, and post it here to let the community make it more rubyesque.
> But for this I need interesting and representative programs, and this is
> kind of difficult.

I don't think it would work better as a community thing because you 
will lose a lot of the useful information that you wanted to capture
(like time to implement).

Thinking about it you wouldn't need to come up with tasks, you could
ask nicely and use the Weekly Quizes and pick a couple off them.