Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-13 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
tpledger: > Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > [...] > > While we're here we should fix: > > chameneos > > And anything else you want to take a > > look at. > > > > A community page has been set up to > > which you can submit improved entries: > > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Great_languag

[Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-13 Thread tpledger
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: [...] > While we're here we should fix: > chameneos > And anything else you want to take a > look at. > > A community page has been set up to > which you can submit improved entries: > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Great_language_shootout [...] Well, then!

[Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-11 Thread Isaac Gouy
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: -snip- > I agree. Breaking the rules was mainly the reason for the drop. Entries > like chameneos and fasta. Also, the other language teams kept improving > things. Yes, I missed that opportunity for listing things in threes ;-) Over the year improved programs were

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-11 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 11/11/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Sebastian, Saturday, November 11, 2006, 3:51:09 AM, you wrote: > Meassuring lines of code is certainly not perfect, but IMO it's a lot > more useful as a metric then gzipped bytes. why they don't use word count?? I don't know. I s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Isaac, Saturday, November 11, 2006, 5:56:57 AM, you wrote: > 2) Some Haskell programs were pushed into 'interesting alternative > implementations' because they'd strayed so far from the spirit of the > benchmark. (It takes a while for people to notice and complain, but > eventually they do.

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-11 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Sebastian, Saturday, November 11, 2006, 3:51:09 AM, you wrote: > Meassuring lines of code is certainly not perfect, but IMO it's a lot > more useful as a metric then gzipped bytes. why they don't use word count?? -- Best regards, Bulatmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-10 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
igouy2: > > On 11/10/06, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > >> > >> Haskell suddenly dropped several places in the overall socre, when > the > >> size measurement changed from line-count to number-of-bytes after > >> gzipping. Maybe it's worth it, to study why this is; Haskell > programs > >> are > >> of

[Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-10 Thread Isaac Gouy
> On 11/10/06, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: >> >> Haskell suddenly dropped several places in the overall socre, when the >> size measurement changed from line-count to number-of-bytes after >> gzipping. Maybe it's worth it, to study why this is; Haskell programs >> are >> often much more compact then

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-10 Thread Tony Morris
Sebastian Sylvan wrote: On 11/10/06, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:44:15 +0100, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So back in January we had lots of fun tuning up Haskell code for the > Great Language Shootout[1]. We did quite well at the ti

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-10 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On 11/10/06, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:44:15 +0100, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So back in January we had lots of fun tuning up Haskell code for the > Great Language Shootout[1]. We did quite well at the time, at one point > rankin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-10 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:44:15 +0100, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So back in January we had lots of fun tuning up Haskell code for the Great Language Shootout[1]. We did quite well at the time, at one point ranking overall first[2]. [...] Haskell suddenly dropped several pla

[Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

2006-11-09 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
So back in January we had lots of fun tuning up Haskell code for the Great Language Shootout[1]. We did quite well at the time, at one point ranking overall first[2]. After doing all we could with ghc 6.4.2, the Haskell entries have been left for the last 10 months, while we worked on new libraries