Andreas' practical language comparison

[Dan Bishop]

Andreas Koch <nospam at kochandreas.com> wrote in message news:<c6glig$phm$07$4 at news.t-online.com>...
> Hi all,
> 
> i started a little "practical language comparison" - practical
> in the sense that i compare how actual distributions and versions
> and their libraries (not abstract language specifications) solve small
> test cases like the 8 queens problem.
> 
> Currently there are contributions for 17 different languages, and
> none for Phyton (and Lisp. And Forth. And many others ).
> If someone is interested in contributing a few implementations,
> please have a look at:
> 
> http://www.kochandreas.com/home/language/lang.htm
> 
> and mail me your code snippets (or critics) or post them here.

# ************ Sort 2 ************

import sys

lines = file(sys.argv[1]).readlines()
lines.sort()
file('sorted.txt', 'w').writelines(lines)

# ************ Type "file" ************

import sys

for line in file(sys.argv[1]):
   print line