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frankenstein <klohmuschel@yahoo.de> writes:
> Fact #1: We must forget about the language shootout page because it is
> and always has been a kinda like of Micky Mouse benchmark (any idot
> who thought he might make up for an excellent programmer posted crappy
> code and once posted it is forever in google's history and a lot of
> other idiots will use the result from the benchmark). RIP language
> shotout page.

The shootout is reasonably informative when it's about languages that
have many active practitioners.  If someone posts crappy slow code
that makes the language look bad for a while, someone else can come
along and post faster code.  So there is ongoing competition between
GHC, Ocaml, C++ and so forth.  It's only for the languages with fewer
practitioners (these can still be perfectly good languages) that the
early crappy submissions don't get improved regularly.