This is interesting! If you take this as a rough grade of popularity and use of languages - it’s a surprise to me to see Caml and Haskell up on top and Smalltalk and Forth on the bottom… (instead of the opposite).
Of course, this isn’t a good sample - but whatever…
David Douthitt
CUNA & Affiliates
UNIX Systems Administrator
ddouthitt@cuna.coop
mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com 9/5/02 4:29PM >>>
The ICFP '02 contest have listed the number of entries per language.
Ruby is pretty high up the list with a whopping 3 entries but nowhere near
close to Python or Perl.
Hopefully this robot contest has made it easy for bright Ruby minds to
compete
Java 28
C++ 22
C 20
Caml 19
Python 16
Perl 11
Haskell 10
Scheme 7
Common lisp 4
Ruby 3
Dylan 2
Erlang 2
Mercury 2
Ada 1
Delphi 1
Forth 1
Icon 1
Prolog 1
Smalltalk 1
Sml 1
Total 136
Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It’s amazing
that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
languages.
Paul Prescod
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, David Douthitt wrote:
This is interesting! If you take this as a rough grade of popularity
and use of languages - it’s a surprise to me to see Caml and Haskell
up on top and Smalltalk and Forth on the bottom… (instead of the
opposite).
Of course, this isn’t a good sample - but whatever…
This is interesting! If you take this as a rough grade of
popularity and use of languages - it’s a surprise to me to see Caml
and Haskell up on top and Smalltalk and Forth on the bottom…
(instead of the opposite).
Nope, it is supposed to be a programming contest for every language, hosted
by the functional community, to try to prove functional languages to be the
overall best choice.
Regards /Selander
Anders Selander Centre for Parallel Computers selander@pdc.kth.se
Programmer Royal Institute of Technology +46 (0)8 790 72 11
SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN +46 (0)70 266 29 67
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:50:48AM +0900, paul@prescod.net wrote:
Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It’s amazing
that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
languages.
So then it is no surprise if there is a bias towards the use of functional
languages!
Paul Prescod
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Anders Selander wrote:
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:50:48AM +0900, paul@prescod.net wrote:
Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It’s amazing
that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
languages.
Nope, it is supposed to be a programming contest for every language, hosted
by the functional community, to try to prove functional languages to be the
overall best choice.
I think that the numbers reflect more current academic preference
and fashion more than anything else. FORTH is an excellent choice
for small embedded systems, however it is neither fashionable nor
popular.
(simle) Kind of like Robinson headed screws everywhere except
in Canada …
-mark.
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At 04:52 PM 9/6/2002 +0900, Anders wrote:
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:50:48AM +0900, paul@prescod.net wrote:
Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It’s amazing
that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
languages.
Nope, it is supposed to be a programming contest for every language, hosted
by the functional community, to try to prove functional languages to be the
overall best choice.
