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- From: nharvey@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Nicole Harvey)
- Subject: Assessing a language
- Reply-To: nharvey@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Nicole Harvey)
- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:55:18 GMT
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- Hi,
- I am involved in assessing a language. Does anyone know of a standard
- set of problems that I could use to judge the languages compabilities?
- Can anyone think of a problem that represents a real need in a
- language? For example, we have tested it for the eight queens problem to
- show that it can do state space searches. We have also made sure it can
- generate the Fibonacci numbers. Can you think of any other well known
- problems?
- What things do you expect to be able to write relatively simply using
- any language? I would like to here from people working in all areas.
-
- Nicole
- nharvey@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au
- [It has long been my belief that preferences in languages is an entirely
- religious issue. Computational capabilities aren't much of an issue since
- they're all Turing equivalent. How is it for parallel multi-lingual
- object-oriented database update, to pick a few buzzwords? -John]
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