Great Computer Language Shootout Revived

[Jason Clinton]

Let the flame wars begin:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/index.php

The most interesting observations I've made so far:

* Bash (using standard unixisms) being included is kinda fun -- it
almost always lost, as well; if I had to guess I would think it
has to do with piping around the results of running the commands
in C and overhead for starting and stopping a lot of processes to
do one little thing
* I've always thought of Perl as outperforming all other language
having been around the longest but Python beat Perl in almost
every test.
* PHP abysmally lost almost every time -- interesting given that its
running so many web sites; Ruby also performed horribly despite
being a popular new language
* Java performed marginally better than all scripting languages in
all but a few tests. Java's memory consumption was astronomically
high, though
* Code complexity is also rated in these tests; take a look at the
C++ vs. Python on the Spell Checker test, for instance

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