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The Great Computer Language Shootout Revived

Posted by timothy on from the sputters-to-life dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Doug Bagley's famous Great computer Language Shootout more or less died in 2001 out of lack of support by its own author. A group of developers have decided to revive it and update it with the latest versions of each compiler and interpreter available on the Debian distribution. The good news is, a wiki has been set up so that people can help improve the shootout, discuss the implemetations of the programs, and suggest optimizations."

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  1. Judging by the lack of comments... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Judging by the lack of comments in here, I'd say it isn't just the author who lost interest.

    1. Re:Judging by the lack of comments... by turgid · · Score: 2, Funny

      No man. We're all flame-warred out from the other day.

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      Stick Men
  2. And that'd be...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...and update it with the latest versions of each compiler and interpreter available on the Debian distribution.

    I'm fighting the urge to ask how C compiled with gcc 1.3 will compare to COBOL...

  3. Oh Boy! by Rhesus+Piece · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh boy! There is a "Manufacture your own results" cgi! Now we can all play the "change the weighting so your language of choice wins" game!

    I changed everything to '1', and Ocaml won.