Russel Winder wrote:
The game is known to be fundamentally flawed, but despite this, the results have effect on the perception of programming languages.http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ D should compete with C, C++ and beat Go. If anyone has any time perhaps a "cabal" should form to create a Bazaar/Mercurial/Git repository with the various codes in it?
The thing about that shootout is D used to be on there, until the maintainer of the site removed it. He refuses to include D on the benchmarks.