I think my point about the benchmarks is still fair, though: FORTRAN wins (last time I checked) more of the funny language shootout benchmarks than any other single language.
Check again:
Someone contributed better C programs -- programmers matter.
Intel Fortran compared to GCC -- language implementations matter.
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I think my point about the benchmarks is still fair, though: FORTRAN wins (last time I checked) more of the funny language shootout benchmarks than any other single language.
Check again:
Someone contributed better C programs -- programmers matter.
Intel Fortran compared to GCC -- language implementations matter.
And on everyone of the other 8 comparisons, the JavaScript V8 program was slower than the corresponding Java program.
The median JavaScript V8 program was 3x slower than the corresponding Java program.
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