Kernighan and Van Wyk, "Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages" (1998) http://web.archive.org/web/200

Kernighan and Van Wyk, "Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages" (1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20000829071436/http://inferno.bell-labs.com:80/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html http://web.archive.org/web/20000829071436/http://inferno.bel... AWK, Perl, Tcl, Scheme, C, Java, Limbo, Visual Basic What if k scripting language was included in those experiments? http://kparc.com/z/bell.k http://kparc.com/z/bell.k k3: 1. "Basic Loop Test" \t 1000000(1+)/0 2. "Ackermann's Function Test" \t {:[~x;y+1;~y;_f[x-1;1];_f[x-1;_f[x;y-1]]]}[3;7] 3. "Indexed Array Test" \t x(x;|x:!200000) 4. "String Test" \t f:{(x>#:){(i _ x),(1+i:_.5*#x)#x:,/("123";x;"456";x;"789")}/y};do[10;f[500000;"abcdef"]] 5. "Associative Array Test" \t {+/("0123456789abcdef"16_vs'!x)_lin$!x}40000 6. "File Copy Test" `f 0:(30000 _draw 300)#\:"king " \t `f 0:0:`f 7. "Word Count Test" \t (#:;+/(+/1<':" "=)';+/#:')@\:0:`f 8. "File Reversal Test" \t `f 0:|0:`f 9. "Sum Test" `f 0:100000#,"-123.456" \t +/0.0$0:`f Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010501041644/http://www.kx.com:80/a/k/examples/bell.k http://web.archive.org/web/20010501041644/http://www.kx.com:...