Re: [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived

[Sebastien Ferre <sbf@aber.ac.uk>]

Yaron Minsky wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:05:12 -0500 (CDT), Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>What's starting to happen, now that the project has started up again, is
>>advocates/supporters of other languages have started to submit improved
>>versions of the code for their languages.  For example, I notice that
>>Ocaml has dropped from it's #1 place in least lines of code to #2, with
>>Ruby taking the lead.
> 
> 
> For what it's worth, the ocaml line-counts in the shootout are
> particularly bogus.  There are lots of examples where the ocaml code
> does things like putting entire for loops (or even nested for loops!)
> on a single line.  Here's an example:

What about counting characters instead (counting several spaces in
a row as only one character) ? As most languages just don't mind
where you cut the lines, this seems to me a more fair measure.
Also, this would give complete freedom on the indentation style
without resulting in any disadvantage for the language rank.

Just a suggestion :)

Sébastien


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