It would be highly misleading to suggest that J is not included 'because it chose not to be'.
There is no reason, in a day of 64-bit address spaces, to place a restriction like "don't slurp files" on an implementation. When J doesn't participate in a contest that makes capricious and unreasonable demands, it's because of the demands. Other languages don't 'suffer under' byte-at-a-time restrictions, because they don't know any better. Make some specifications like 'must give exact results on all integer inputs from _1e100 to +1e100' or 'the program must generate a program to calculate the result and pass that program as a parameter to an execution engine which will execute the generated program without a compilation step'. All languages would suffer equally under those requirements, no? And those requirements actually might have some use in real life. Henry Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isaac Gouy > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Computer Language Benchmarks Game > > > --- Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -snip- > > IG> it is what it is, take it or leave it. > > > > Agreed. And, AFAICT the consensus is "leave it". At least, Raul's > > recent message expressed my feelings well in > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2007-December/0 08982.html > > > When in the future, people raise the topic here (as they inevitably > will) - why isn't J included in the benchmarks game - I'd > appreciate it > if you could explain to them that some of you chose not to be. > > > To be absolutely clear: I have no objection to showing a big > bunch of J > programs, if someone decides to implement them within the same > restrictions the other programming languages suffer under. > > > Maybe they think they can do that without your help - that's > up to them. > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
