OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[SomeDude]

On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 23:21:15 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 19:59:31 UTC, Isaac Gouy wrote:
>> On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 15:45:32 UTC, jerro wrote:
>>>> if, say, GDC was granted to come back in the shootout. Given 
>>>> it's now widely acknowledged (at least in the programming 
>>>> communities) to be one of the most promising languages 
>>>> around...
>>>
>>> And especially if you also consider the fact that there Clean 
>>> and ATS are in the shootout and I'm guessing that very few 
>>> people use those.
>>
>>
>> See
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Why_did_D_leave_the_programming_language_shootout_and_will_it_return_144864.html#N144870
>
> Still, you don't explain why you picked, say ATS, which is 
> significantly more esoteric than D, and much less likely to be 
> used by the community in the large. I argue that many more 
> people would be interested in the performance of D.

Proof is, it seems to me that you (Isaac Gouy) often come around 
here. We can magically invoke you every time one talks about the 
shootout. Which is pretty astonishing for a language you aren't 
interested in.