Language Challenge 2000

[Roger Upole]

Since execution time is a factor, I doubt that any interpreted languages
will even be in the running.
               Roger Upole

"Konrad Hinsen" <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote in message
news:m3wvomfven.fsf at chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr...
> bvoh at sdynamix.com writes:
>
> > Criteria:
> >
> > a)  Execution time
> > b)  Size of executable
>
> Free choice of platform, OS, development tools, etc.? How will
> executable size be measured in the case of interpreted languages? What
> about system libraries, especially dynamic ones? And how will
> execution time and size be weighted?
>
> If size gets a sufficiently high weight, I suspect the winning entry
> will be for a programmable calculator.
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