The Benchmarks Game maintainer explains why in the comments to this blog post: http://alexgaynor.net/2011/apr/03/my-experience-computer-language-shootout/ http

The Benchmarks Game maintainer explains why in the comments to this blog post: http://alexgaynor.net/2011/apr/03/my-experience-computer-language-shootout/ http://alexgaynor.net/2011/apr/03/my-experience-computer-lan... Sounds entirely reasonable to me.