Parallel Rogue-like benchmark

Jesse Phillips Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com
Sat Aug 24 10:29:54 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 16:19:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> The fault of LOC is precisely that people "fairly intuitively"
> understand it. The problem is that no two people's intuitions 
> ever
> match.  So any conclusions drawn from LOC must necessarily be
> subjective, and really not that much better than saying "I feel 
> like
> language A is better than language B, because I just like it 
> better, and
> besides, it has a nicer color (aka better LOC or whatever other
> subjective metric)."

That sounds to be the exactly what we wish to capture.

> Which is fine, if that's what you're looking for. But let's not 
> pretend
> it has anything to do with the objective quality of a language.

See above. What use is an objective measure when peoples taste 
for a language is subjective?


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