Parallel Rogue-like benchmark

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/25/13 3:57 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 24/08/13 19:01, Ramon wrote:
>> I think that there is a lot speaking against sloc.
>>
>> First it's often (ab?)used for "Ha! My language x is better than
>> yours. I can
>> write a web server in 3 lines, you need 30".
>
> Don't know about a web server, but I remember somewhere online I found
> this really cool 3-line quicksort that you can do in Haskell :-)
>
>      qsort []     = []
>      qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x]
>                     ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs)

This is one of the worst PR functional programming has ever gotten, and 
one of the worst things FP has done to the larger community. Somebody 
should do hard time for this. And yes, for that matter it's a great 
example in which SLOCs are not a very good measure.

Andrei