On 3/23/06, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They aren't even ballpark representations of what a language is
> capable of, except for the narrow domain of tasks for which you need
> to stick a lot of data into a hash table and then make a bunch of
> lookups on it.  So, if you have a task where this is the bulk of what
> you'll be doing, the results might have some slight real-world
> applicability.  Otherwise, it's just a silly game.


Oh, come on!  You're telling me that this test isn't authoritative?  :-)

Regardless of how poor of a test this is, I still like these little
language skirmishes.  It helps me understand a lot more about the
practical application of a language for a valid problem domain.

-Bryan

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