From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,189a28164788ed2e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-03 06:31:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "martin.m.dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <28TE7.4988$sD3.1621413@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:24:54 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.10.55 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1004797566 62.253.10.55 (Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:26:06 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:26:06 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15735 Date: 2001-11-03T14:24:54+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:cQSE7.11173$xS6.15277@www.newsranger.com... > How did it compare on their SLOC measurement? no idea - I just wanted to prove, to myself as much as anything, that Ada95 could hack it with the fastest of them... and it could. > The last time I read over that, its goals, methods, and conclusions seemed so > bogus that I didn't think it was worth participating. The ideal language for > them would be some compiled form of APL. Anything that proports to compare > languages in a general way and is stilted towards APL isn't worth my time. I'm sure there are hundred of reasons why this sort of benchmarking is 'bogus' but not actually entering a suite of Ada programs for (potentially favourable) comparisons just means that even more people think the language is dead. :-(