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Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages
In this blog post, the author plots the results of 19 different benchmark tests across 72 programming languages to create a quantitative comparison between them. The resulting visualizations give insight into how the languages perform across a variety of tasks, and also how some some languages perform in relation to others.
"If you drew the benchmark results on an XY chart you could name the four corners. The fast but verbose languages would cluster at the top left. Let's call them system languages. The elegantly concise but sluggish languages would cluster at the bottom right. Let's call them script languages. On the top right you would find the obsolete languages. That is, languages which have since been outclassed by newer languages, unless they offer some quirky attraction that is not captured by the data here. And finally, in the bottom left corner you would find probably nothing, since this is the space of the ideal language, the one which is at the same time fast and short and a joy to use."
Citation needed.
I know it's trendy to say citation needed .. so yeah, doubleplus trend points for you, aren't you so cool! but you can always do your own goddamned research too. in this case it'd be an easy quick google search. you do know that, right?
Generally it's up to the one who makes the claim to provide the evidence, but whatever floats your boat.
And if this were a scientific paper or a formal debate I'd agree with you. Meanwhile, don't pretend like you have no idea what I am saying or why I am saying it, because that just makes you a douchebag. You're not really that much of a douche, are you?
Nobody on Slashdot cared about that until it got trendy to say "citation needed" as though this were Wikipedia and you know it. There's formal and then there's informal discussion and Slashdot isn't terribly formal so don't bitch when it's not treated formally. If you're interested in something, and it's that goddamned easy to find, you'll find it. You'll find it with Google faster than you'll type out your lame "citation needed" gripe. That's if you are interested in the citation and not in bitching about how someone posted of course.
"[PERL] It's the Swiss army chainsaw."
Those who think this is a complement, curse on your house and may the Handkerchief ensure that I never have to work with your sorry lot. :-)
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Are you really just complaining about the specific term "citation needed"?
Is this really just you being pissy about Wikipedia? -- or perhaps it's about you being pissy about a current meme?
If rbarreira had instead used the phrase "evidence please" would that have kept your "pissy" button un-pushed?
I most certainly would blame the tool if the handle snapped or the blunt end kept falling off. If Perl fits your natural style and way of thinking, then perhaps that says more about the structure of your brain than it does about the utility of the language.
Because speed is not everything.