On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Baruch Even wrote:
> There was a suggestion to do a shootout between scripting languages. It
> was mostly done already, though not in the context of an embedded
> editor.
>
> Check this site for comparisons: http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
>
> This is by no means complete or correct, the author says that many of
> the programs can possibly be optimized further.
>
> I believe that the best thing that we can get from this is to see how
> various programs look, speed is not so much of a matter, Most of the
> needed scripts will not pass a second anyway.
I would suggest the simplest solution to this decision is to see what
gets implemented ... since there aren't that many developers I don't
really see a problem in choosing a particular language, since there is
unlikely to be more than one person willing to do an implementation
anyway !
john
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