Re: fast & Nice

On a similar vein to the Computer Language Shootout, I just
encountered a link to the "JVM Language Soko-Shootout" (
http://opal.cabochon.com/~stevey/sokoban/ ) ; an interesting site that
I haven't seen mentioned on this list before.

It compares nine different JVM-targetting languages by writing an
implementation of Sokoban in each, and gives the author's impressions
of writing in each language - rather than performance stastics.
Unfortunately it's incomplete, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Some complimentary quotes:

"Nice is a fascinating JVM language that's very different from most of
the other languages in the shootout... Overall, Nice was one of my
favorites, and I'd use it again... I can't believe Java doesn't have
more features from Nice! ... Daniel Bonniot over at INRIA is
(obviously) a very gifted programmer and computer scientist"

I found this via a link in the comments to Bruce Eckel's discussion of
Groovy at Artima -
http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=3D106&thread=3D147353.

Cheers

Inigo


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