Python really does need less lines of code ;)

[Alex Stapleton]

Looking for some confirmation that Python really is a more concise language than most others, I resorted to the ever handy Computer Language Shootout and it's oh so reliable CRAPS scoring system ;) Python comes second, just after OCaml. Both of which are a significantly further ahead of everything else. For those less inclined to copy and paste the huge URL http://tinyurl.com/ds5bf Please excuse the stupidly long URL http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&sort=fullcpu&xfullcpu=0&xmem=0&xloc=1&ackermann=1&wc=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&harmonic=1&heapsort=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&objinst=1&methcall=1&pidigits=1&random=1&regexmatch=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&spellcheck=1&hello=1&sumcol=1&takfp=1&tcpecho=1&tcprequest=1&tcpstream=1&process=1&message=1&wordfreq=1&calc=Calculate

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