I'm addressing the point above: "Language Benchmark is probably the most useless and counter-productive place to start talking about language and platform compa

I'm addressing the point above: "Language Benchmark is probably the most useless and counter-productive place to start talking about language and platform comparison." This was the point that I completely disagree with. When somebody gives me a new programming language (Julia for example), I'm going to want to know the numbers just so I have that as a baseline understanding. Afterwards sure, I want to know all the bells and whistles the language gives me over C.