Re: ada is getting spanked :(

[Leif Holmgren <nobody@nowhere.com>]

jtg wrote:
> Leif Holmgren wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever tried to measure the important programming language 
>> speed aspects? What I mean is
>> - Time to implement a complex algo by an average programmer, including 
>> bug-fixing.
> 
> 
> There is one natural environment for such tests: programming 
> competition. For example at topcoder (www.topcoder.com) you can see some 
> statistics (average coding time, best coding time, correct programs 
> percentage etc.) for several languages used in these competitions. 
> Unfortunately, the languages are only C++, C#, java and Visual Basic.
> 

Without having looked I believe the problem is that such sites will only 
attract the really talented programmers. And a talented programmer can 
write fortran in any programming language.

What's really interesting is the result from those coders that go home 
after their 8 hours in front of the terminal and dont spend five minutes 
thinking about software until they are back at work the next day.