I looked over the Rosetta Stone site, the collaborative (wiki) aspect is real handy.
What's a good concise description of the task? Any good reference implementation(s)? Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ian Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:40:24 PM > Subject: Re: [computer-go] programming languages > > > On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM, terry mcintyre > > wrote: > >> I like the idea of a contest to determine the best ways to > >> implement a particular problem ( generating light playouts ) in > >> various languages. > >> > >> The Language Shootout is probably not the best forum, since they > >> require the same algorithm, which defeats the purpose of comparing > >> languages which tend to do different things well by design; a good > >> programmer/advocate would play to the strengths of each language. > > > > The Language shootout has a class of "contests" which do not require > > the same algorithm, i.e. > > > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php? > > test=meteorā©=all > > > > cheers > > stuart > > The Alioth site is centrally administrated, so the bureaucracy to add > a task is formidable. On the other hand, they've just added a > multicore test platform and already have a performance measuring > framework. > > Might I suggest again the Rosetta Code wiki at http:// > www.rosettacode.org/? Anyone can contribute at any time, since it's > uses MediaWiki, like Wikipedia. They have active participants for > many compiled languages, and have just been discussing adding a > "game" category. I would especially like to see what the J and > Haskell folks make of this task. For a larger project like this, they > recommend making a single task page with a sub page for each language > (like RCBF). > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
