From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2008-04-09T11:02:09+09:00 Subject: Re: RubyâEURO(tm)s not ready - an indepth essay On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Isaac Gouy wrote: > On Apr 7, 9:00 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > Worst of all, the author treats both theAliothshootoutand the Zed > > Shaw rant as things worthy of positive attention, when both are, well, > > worthless. TheAliothshootouthas been known to be worthless for > > years yet periodically some idiot treats it as serious. > Once upon a time, you made a specific complaint that the execution > environment, on what used to be called the computer language shootout, > stopped a Ruby Ackermann program from doing it's stuff - that problem > was fixed. I haven't gone back to the Alioth shootout web site in a long time, because the problem was originally reported at least a year before it was fixed. > Unfortunately, since then your comments about what is now called the > benchmarks game don't amount to more than name calling. No, it's a lot more than name calling. It's still treated far more seriously than it deserves to be treated. Since I haven't looked at the "benchmarks game" in a while (I don't visit places that are useless), I don't know if your text is any better than it was two years ago (the last time I wasted any time there) to make it clear that no one should take anything presented on the "benchmarks game" seriously. I'll assume for the moment that you have improved it and that now it's because people like this author are stupid and take something like the "benchmarks game" seriously when it never should be. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca