btw, just to add a little to this... this is the result of something we did here at brightroll.com, where Marshall and I work. we had a "rally day". The goal was to take one of our standard processing jobs and try out different languages to see which ones performed the best and had the cleanest code (highly subjective feature, for sure :-) Marshall did Haskell, I tried clojure. We had 2 entries for ruby (and various VMs), Java, and several in Perl. The winner in terms of performance was Perl.
Anyways, Marshall thought this was a good experiment and suggested broadening it and getting the bayfp involved. We could host it as well, if that is necessary. cheers, dru On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Marshall Beddoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Since we have a truly diverse group of people on this list who have an > interest in multiple functional programming languages, I think it would be > fun if we had an activity we could all participate in. I think it would be > both fun and insightful if we could all agree on some piece of functionality > and each of us implemented it in our functional language of choice. I'm not > interested in re-creating the computer language shootout, but instead get > some real code written that does some real things. From there we can have a > conversation about what the strengths as well as the challenges we faced > during implementation. > > As for what to implement, I'm open to ideas. We could do something log > processing related similar to the wide finder, as I am very interested in > high performance functional code, or something completely different. > > Would anyone be interested in participating? We could end up having a bayfp > where we present the results and have the discussion. > > -Marshall > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
