Well, I don't know when you saw the rank, but Perl is in the 8th place:
# Language Implementation Score
1 C gcc 154.6171
2 Ocaml ocaml 124.4804
3 C++ g++ 105.6944
4 Eiffel se 98.7194
5 Ocaml ocamlb 93.0624
6 SML mlton 91.8259
7 Clean clean 90.5943
8 Perl perl 79.6822
9 Haskell ghc 77.4361
10 Pike pike 77.1981
11 Oberon-2 oberon2 77.0360
12 Lua lua 75.2653
13 Scheme bigloo 75.1351
14 S-Lang slang 73.4023
15 Python python 73.0627
16 Ruby ruby 72.6933
17 Lisp newlisp 69.7620
18 Common_Lisp cmucl 65.5113
19 Forth gforth 65.2669
20 Awk mawk 64.9447
21 Java gcj 64.3719
22 Python psyco 63.3687
23 Nice nice 63.3655
24 Scheme chicken 63.1898
25 Awk gawk 63.1771
26 SML smlnj 62.8468
27 Java java 62.3177
28 Common_Lisp sbcl 61.1720
29 Tcl tcl 60.9442
30 Erlang erlang 60.8645
31 Java kaffe 60.4781
32 Erlang hipe 58.9117
33 Scheme guile 57.9570
34 Java sablevm 57.4272
35 Smalltalk gst 56.6310
36 Java gij 56.3162
37 Lisp rep 51.1753
38 Dylan gwydion 48.7750
39 Icon icon 47.1262
40 Ada gnat 41.8272
41 Scheme mzscheme 39.3508
42 PHP php 39.3355
43 Mercury mercury 38.9003
44 Bash bash 38.3828
45 Scheme mzc 36.9159
46 Emacs_Lisp xemacs 35.3363
47 Mozart/Oz oz 33.0343
48 C# csharp 31.2426
49 Scheme stalin 29.2409
50 ElastiC elastic 14.8057
51 Objective_C objc 12.5165
52 Prolog gprolog 4.0209
53 Ciao_Prolog ciao 2.3282
54 Haskell curry 0.8528
Table generated at
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/craps.php?xcpu=1&xmem=1&xloc=1 (with 1 score multiplier for CPU, Mem and Lines):
Formated with
my @data = qw(
C gcc 154.6171 2
Ocaml ocaml 124.4804 2
C++ g++ 105.6944 2
Eiffel se 98.7194 5
Ocaml ocamlb 93.0624 2
SML mlton 91.8259 2
Clean clean 90.5943 5
Perl perl 79.6822 2
Haskell ghc 77.4361 4
Pike pike 77.1981 2
Oberon-2 oberon2 77.0360 5
Lua lua 75.2653 3
Scheme bigloo 75.1351 3
S-Lang slang 73.4023 5
Python python 73.0627 2
Ruby ruby 72.6933 2
Lisp newlisp 69.7620 6
Common_Lisp cmucl 65.5113 2
Forth gforth 65.2669 4
Awk mawk 64.9447 8
Java gcj 64.3719 3
Python psyco 63.3687 3
Nice nice 63.3655 2
Scheme chicken 63.1898 6
Awk gawk 63.1771 8
SML smlnj 62.8468 2
Java java 62.3177 3
Common_Lisp sbcl 61.1720 2
Tcl tcl 60.9442 5
Erlang erlang 60.8645 0
Java kaffe 60.4781 3
Erlang hipe 58.9117 0
Scheme guile 57.9570 2
Java sablevm 57.4272 3
Smalltalk gst 56.6310 4
Java gij 56.3162 3
Lisp rep 51.1753 6
Dylan gwydion 48.7750 5
Icon icon 47.1262 9
Ada gnat 41.8272 9
Scheme mzscheme 39.3508 7
PHP php 39.3355 12
Mercury mercury 38.9003 9
Bash bash 38.3828 14
Scheme mzc 36.9159 7
Emacs_Lisp xemacs 35.3363 11
Mozart/Oz oz 33.0343 8
C# csharp 31.2426 2
Scheme stalin 29.2409 16
ElastiC elastic 14.8057 18
Objective_C objc 12.5165 23
Prolog gprolog 4.0209 23
Ciao_Prolog ciao 2.3282 24
Haskell curry 0.8528 26
);
sub FORMATING {
$^A = "";
formline(shift,@_);
return $^A;
}
print " # Language Implementation Score\n" ;
my $format = qq`@>> @<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<< @>>>>>>>`;
my $c ;
for(my $i = 0 ; $i <@data ; $i +=4) {
++$c ;
my $form = &FORMATING($format , $c , @data[$i..($i+2)] ) ;
print "$form\n" ;
}
Graciliano M. P.
"Creativity is the expression of the liberty".
