Python really does need less lines of code ;)

[Alex Stapleton]

Looking for some confirmation that Python really is a more concise  
language than most others, I resorted to the ever handy Computer  
Language Shootout and it's oh so reliable CRAPS scoring system ;)

Python comes second, just after OCaml. Both of which are a  
significantly further ahead of everything else.

For those less inclined to copy and paste the huge URL

http://tinyurl.com/ds5bf

Please excuse the stupidly long URL

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php? 
test=all&lang=all&sort=fullcpu&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&ackermann=1&wc=1 
&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&harmonic=1&heapsort=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbo 
dy=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&objinst=1&methcall=1&pidigits=1&random=1&rege 
xmatch=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&spellcheck=1&hello=1&sumcol=1&takfp=1& 
tcpecho=1&tcprequest=1&tcpstream=1&process=1&message=1&wordfreq=1&calc=C 
alculate
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