Languages
2009-06-01 01:09:08.077071+02 by ebwolf 0 comments
Guillaume Marceau did a compelling longitudinal comparison of computer languages. He used a standard set of benchmarks implemented written in 72 different languages. Actually, it's 72 different compilers and interpreters. No overwhelming surprises - compiled C code rocks - Python's well balanced. The overall result was that the maturity of the implementation played more of a role than any other factor. So much for language design! Of course, that means we should all be using COBOL and Fortran (not in his analysis).
Be sure to scroll down and click on the link for the 2009 version with Mozilla's TraceMonkey and Google's V8 Javascript interpreters in the mix. Tracemonkey is still lacking but V8 is shaping up nicely. Maybe Google will succeed in producing a viable cross-platform application language where Sun has mostly failed.