> I'd love to see a "programming language benchmark game" > that only allowed idiomatic code and compared languages based on code length. You just described th

> I'd love to see a "programming language benchmark game" > that only allowed idiomatic code and compared languages based on code length. You just described the old Debian language benchmark game. You could select the various coefficients to apply to code size, program speed etc. I remember it played an important role when I decided to give OCaml a try: I selected 1 for size, 1 for speed, 1 for RAM and zero for everything else, and that resulted in OCaml and Pascal, the two languages I was prejudiced against from school years. Of course I went with OCaml. From the same era: http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html?m=1 http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependabil... Also relevant: https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/03/25/programming-languages-ranked-by-expressiveness/ https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/03/25/programming-languag...