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On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
<snip>
> Have a look at the programming language shoot-
> out:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Don't jump to conclusions:
>
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.php
>
> [By the way, does anyone know why the number of languages in the shootout
> seems to have dropped drastically?]

Probably related to this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/glvgk/lua_jit_pypy_tracemonkey_python_27_jruby_and/

Cheers,
Chris