[Haskell-cafe] Shootout rankings

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

jupdike:
> > > Maybe we finally have enough motivation to move to
> > > some other measurement of program volume :-)
> 
> > I'm not sure how you could do this better, though... Maybe counting
> > the number of "tokens" (not sure how you'd define that though)
> 
> I was thinking the same thing for the past few weeks: that lexemes or
> lexical tokens would be the ideal unit of conciseness in a programming
> language. This is revealing:
> 
> >From the shootout, for ackermann (counted by hand, given the benefit
> of the doubt (i.e. to yield shorter count), excuse any mistakes):
> language         lines   lexemes (non-whitespace, non-comment tokens)
> Haskell          7        78
> Python           10       79*
> OCaml            6        87
> Standard ML      4        88

Ah! Just as I thought, SML really was trying very hard ;)

> Tcl              12       89**
> Nice             7        93
> Perl             9        95***
> c/gcc            8       100****
> Java             7        109
> D Digital Mars   9        113
> Scheme           11       113

-- Don