Re: The Great Computer Language Shootout
- Posted by kbochert at copper.net Nov 14, 2003
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On 13 Nov 2003 at 22:21, Bruce M. Axtens wrote: > > > Possibly a better forum for presenting Euphoria to the outside world > would be to submit code to PLEAC "PLEAC - Programming Language Examples > Alike Cookbook" <http://pleac.sourceforge.net/>. > > The maintainer says "Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom > Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly) which presents > a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this > project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the > solutions in other programming languages. > > If successful, this project may become a primary resource for quick, > handy and free reference to solve most common programming problems using > higher-level programming languages, and for comparison on ease-of-use > and power/efficiency of these languages. " > > Bruce. Sounded great, but I checked the site FAQ page, and they explicitly state that they are only interested in free software (as in GNU, nor free of charge). GPL snobbery Might be interesting to do something similar for non-free scripting languages. There must be others besides Euphoria and Bach ?? Karl Bochert