[plt-scheme] xxx chooses MzScheme as preferred language

I am surprised to see that Cobol, RPG, fake Java, and friends don't 
show up. Is this a systematic language/implementation survey or is it 
biased by C/C++ fans who are duking it out with people who want to put 
their languages on a web site. -- Matthias



On May 31, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Henry Lenzi wrote:

> A bit off-topic...
> The interface is much better...I just looked at the top 5 languages
> for all benchmarks, and functional languages make the top 5 in almost
> all benchmarks. One is even all-functional. In general, they were
> accompanied by C/C++/D (as expected):
>
>
> Binary trees	
> ---->	Clean
> ---->	OCaml #4
> ---->	SML MLton #2
> ---->	Haskell GHC #2
> ---->	OCaml #3
> Chameneos	
> 	D Digital Mars #2
> 	D Digital Mars
> ---->	Haskell GHC #3
> 	Forth GForth
> ---->	Erlang HiPE
> Cheap-concurrency	
> 	OCaml (bytecode) #3
> 	Java GCJ #3
> 	C++ g++
> 	Forth GForth
> ---->	Haskell GHC
> Fankuch	
> 	C Intel
> 	D Digital Mars
> 	Fortran Intel
> 	C gcc
> ---->	Clean
> Fasta	
> 	C++ g++ #4
> 	C++ Intel #4
> 	C gcc
> 	C Intel
> 	Objective-C
> K-nucleotide	
> 	C Intel
> 	C gcc
> 	D Digital Mars
> 	Parrot PIR
> ---->	SML MLton
> Mandelbrot	
> 	Eiffel SmartEiffel
> 	C gcc #2
> 	Ada 95 GNAT #2
> ---->	SML MLton #2
> 	C Intel #2
> N-body	
> 	Fortran Intel #2
> 	Fortran Intel
> 	C Intel
> 	Oberon-2 OO2C
> 	C++ g++
> N-sieve	
> 	Haskell GHC
> 	C++ g++ #2
> 	C++ Intel #2
> 	D Digital Mars #2
> 	C gcc
> N-sieve bits	
> 	D Digital Mars #2
> 	Eiffel SmartEiffel
> 	Pascal Free Pascal #2
> ---->	SML MLton #2
> 	Fortran Intel
> Partial-sums	
> 	Fortran Intel #2
> 	C Intel #3
> 	C Cyclone
> 	D Digital Mars
> 	Fortran G95 #2
> Pi digits	
> 	C gcc
> 	C Tiny
> 	D Digital Mars #2
> 	D Digital Mars
> ---->	Haskell GHC
> ---->	Haskell GHC #2
> Recursive	
> 	Eiffel SmartEiffel
> 	C gcc
> 	C++ g++
> 	C Intel
> ---->	Clean #4
> Regex-dna	
> 	Tcl #2
> ---->	OCaml #2
> 	Python
> 	Python Psyco
> 	Java JDK 1.4 -server
> Reverse-complement	
> 	D Digital Mars #2
> 	C gcc #2
> 	C Intel #2
> 	Objective-C
> ---->	OCaml
> Spectral-norm	
> 	Fortran Intel
> 	Fortran Intel #2
> 	Eiffel SmartEiffel
> 	C++ g++
> 	C gcc
> Start-up	
> 	C gcc
> 	C Intel
> 	Pascal Free Pascal
> 	C++ Intel
> ---->	OCaml
> Sum-file	
> 	D Digital Mars
> ---->	Clean
> 	C gcc
> 	C Intel
> 	Objective-C
> 	
>
> Amazing!
>
> Henry
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