Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)
On Saturday 29 December 2001 04:55 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> That language shootout didn't really mean much.
Not the shootout specifically, but simple benchmarks can mean something.
Depends on who you ask. If you are doing numerical analysis, like me, or
artificial neural networks, or genetic algorithms, you may be unwilling to
take a, say, 800% penalty in array access time or list sorting, etc.
regardless of what people tell you about their super-awesome ueber-language.
If you are making GUIs, then yeah, use whatever, as long as I don't have to
wait 10 seconds for the drop-down menu to appear. 9 seconds and less will not
try my patience :)
Regards,
Alec
P.S. I apologize for being OT. This is my last post in this thread.
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