Author: Graham Laight
Date: 05:08:35 01/10/03
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On January 10, 2003 at 08:01:45, Dan Andersson wrote: >A couple of postings on comp.lang.scheme implemented the CoyoteGulch benchmarks >in Scheme. And lo and behold BigLoo produced faster code for the numerical >benchmark. One might object that since BigLoo emits C or Java bytecode it isn't >really faster. But the amount of automated program transformations that are >applied is huge. For a coder to do the same thing would be like trying to >outperform a spreadsheet. And the C code is inhuman in nature. And the question >arises: Why on earth would one use C++ or Java? Both are verbose and terribly >low level compared to lambda calculus. There's obviously a sufficiently large market for mathematical languages - probably not quite a large enough market to make it worthwhile to produce a language to write chess programs in. -g >MvH Dan Andersson
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