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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,278bf0771374076e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!nntpserver.swip.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <45451E2E.4000509@nowhere.com> From: Leif Holmgren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada is getting spanked :( References: <1162052997.664967.135910@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <4544D551.20004@nowhere.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:33:34 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.101.93.141 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 1162157635 213.101.93.141 (Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:33:55 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:33:55 CEST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7268 Date: 2006-10-29T22:33:34+01:00 List-Id: 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.