From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA05336; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA05329 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:46:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from will.iki.fi (will.iki.fi [217.169.64.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5JAswEV002204 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:54:59 +0200 Received: from [10.129.39.133] (b212-54-26-185.elisa-laajakaista.fi [212.54.26.185]) by will.iki.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471FBC5; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:54:58 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <34996.217.95.201.40.1087635862.squirrel@btn1x1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de> References: <06D9583C-C0FD-11D8-8AC7-000393863F70@exomi.com> <20040619022648.7864665d.nicolas.francois@free.fr> <34996.217.95.201.40.1087635862.squirrel@btn1x1.inf.uni-bayreuth.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: <1A39F33C-C1DF-11D8-B4A4-000393863F70@exomi.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Ocaml Mailing List From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Benchmark suggestion (Was: Programming Language Shootout) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:54:56 +0300 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "Wolfgang_M=FCller" ?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40D41B83.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 shootout:01 biblio:99 ocaml:01 benchmark:02 necessarily:02 wolfgang:02 wrote:03 scripting:05 suggestion:06 languages:06 problem:07 standard:07 solve:07 programming:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Jun 19, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Wolfgang M=FCller wrote: > 1. Gurus in every language solve given standard problems, like e.g. > parsing of web pages, indexing text, etc.etc. (suitable problems would > need to be found). This sounds a bit like Lutz Prechelt's study (see=20 http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf),=20= except that there was only one problem, the implementers were=20 self-selected and not necessarily gurus. Unsurprisingly, scripting languages took the least time to write and=20 had the lowest LOC. OCaml wasn't part of the study, but the=20 methodology was interesting. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners