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Re: Re: Perl's rank among languagesby arhuman (Vicar) |
on Jan 03, 2002 at 00:00 UTC ( [id://135778]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In particular, the Methodology section makes it clear that some tests are deliberately written non-idiomatically so that they can test common features of all the languages. This notion of non-idiomatic should be clearly defined, to my mind, it's (at best) unfair, beccause it gives a serious advantage to the ones considered as 'idiomatic' (C?). Moreover why compare languages if you can't use their own strengths ? Anyway I don't think that adding useless instruction in Perl make it 'non-idiomatic Perl'. Furthermore look at other language examples I DO find that some of them use language specific idioms. (some haskell and ruby code for example) UPDATE : From the methodology text : Since functional languages have such a different mode of expression, I allow them more leeway In some cases I'm not really measuring the speed of a language, but how good of a programmer I am in that given language. "Only Bad Coders Code Badly In Perl" (OBC2BIP)
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