I feel like what you're actually testing with this is "amongst the top percentile of programmers, what are the proclivities of people by choice of favourite lan

I feel like what you're actually testing with this is "amongst the top percentile of programmers, what are the proclivities of people by choice of favourite language" Because the implementations vary so much, that's the source of a lot of the LOC-difference. They effectively delivered more or less (if you count more stages as "more" which I would as it will make it easier to reason about/debug, and count a typesystem as "more", since it gives you more guarantees). python - solves the problem brutally fast, some ugly shortcuts haskell - solves the problem quite slowly/delivered the most rust/c++ - intermediate scala - solved fast, took shortcuts ocaml - this is the one that surprised me I'd have expected it to be the shortest with python