DN549628706

Subject: Call for Programs: the "phonecode" benchmark - DN [1]

prechelt@ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt) - 17 Nov 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Hi all,

  - Out of the following set of scripting languages:
      Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl
    do you prefer one over the others?
  - Do you think one is inherently better than the others?
  - Or aren't you sure?

 NOW IS THE TIME TO FIND OUT!

 I have prepared an interesting small programming problem
 and have collected a number of implementations for it in C, C++, Java
 and Lisp.
 Comparing these programs, one finds that there are substantial
 differences between the different languages (such as for program length,
 programming time, run time, memory requirements), but that the differences
 between the individual implementations even within one language are
 even larger.

 I would now like to extend this investigation to scripting languages:

   o Are differences between implementations using the same language
     smaller or even larger than for "standard" programming languages?

   o Do systematic differences between different scripting languages
     exist?

   o How do the scripting languages compare to standard programming
     languages such as C or Java?

 If you are interested in participating in this investigation
 please create an implementation of the "Phonecode" benchmark
 problem in your favorite scripting language and submit it to me.
 I will make the results available to you after the evaluation.
 The effort required is typically somewhere between 1 and 8 hours.

 For a description of the programming problem etc., see
 http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/phonecode/

 NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM COLLECTION EFFORT CLOSES AT DECEMBER 18, 1999.

 Happy programming!

   Lutz

 P.S.: You sure know at least ONE other person who might be interested
       in this, right?  Please tell him or her!

 Lutz Prechelt  http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/ | Whenever you
 Institut f. Programmstrukturen & Datenorganisation | complicate things,
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