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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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 06:05:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 09:04:56 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:04:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15734 Date: 2001-11-03T14:04:56+00:00 List-Id: In article , martin.m.dowie says... >Irrespective of where the benchmarks are any actual use or not (they >aren't...) >this could be a pretty good advert for Ada. I did write a program for the >first >benchmark (simple array allocations) and it was as fast as the 'C' >equivilant. How did it compare on their SLOC measurement? 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.