Language comparisons

[Doug Bagley]

Gerrit Muller <gerrit.muller at philips.com> writes:
> Doug Bagley wrote:
> One of my collegaes pointed me to this website:
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/contest_results.htm
> 
> this type of contest is one way of getting productivity data over
> multiple languages.

I think those kinds of contests are very interesting, but beyond my
ability.  That one in particular motivated me to learn some Ocaml.
The results are thought provoking, but I think conclusions should be
drawn carefully.  The same goes for all "benchmarks" :-)

Cheers,
Doug