The Computer Languages Shootout Game

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dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> Russel Winder wrote:
>> > The game is known to be fundamentally flawed, but despite this, the
>> > results have effect on the perception of programming languages.
>> >
>> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>> >
>> > D should compete with C, C++ and beat Go.  If anyone has any time
>> > perhaps a "cabal" should form to create a Bazaar/Mercurial/Git
>> > repository with the various codes in it?
>> The thing about that shootout is D used to be on there, until the
>> maintainer of the site removed it. He refuses to include D on the
>> benchmarks.
> 
> Has he given a reason?  IIRC it's because D isn't/wasn't included in the
> package
> repos of the distributions he uses.  This will probably get fixed soon:
> 
> Fedora already includes LDC.
> 
> GDC is now up to date (or at most one version behind) for D1 and is
> rapidly catching up for D2.
> 
> Unfortunately, the Linux world is dominated by FOSS zealots for whom DMD
> isn't
> open enough.  In the ideal world the DMD backend would be under an
> OSI-approved license so that it could be distributed by even the most
> zealously pro-FOSS distributions.

Of which there are very few. A linux distro or community repository cannot 
distribute dmd at all, it is prohibited by the license. This is primarily a 
practical issue, not an ideological one.