survey

[igouy at yahoo.com]

> The Language Shootout at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ has code
> samples in many languages, both interpreted and compiled, including
the
> ones you mentioned. Don't trust the lines-of-code statistics, though
--
> the LOC measure is wrongly shown as zero for several codes, and
comment
> lines are counted, so that languages with programmers who use more
> comments are penalized.

afaik the LOC measure does not count comment lines - is there a
specific example?

Anyway, we continue to add new micro-benchmarks and deprecate old ones.

We really welcome program contributions for the new and old tests - so
send us some Python!