Benchmarks—the fourth kind of lie

In a thread on comp.lang.tcl Joe English had this to say:

Mark Twain is reported to have said "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics". He would have listed a fourth kind, except that programming language benchmarks hadn't been invented yet.

While Damon Courtney writes:

You know the one thing that never gets faster? Me. My time is precious. I don't have the time to write 100 lines of Java when I can do it in 10 or less lines of Tcl.

My time is too—since I'm not paid by the hour.

—Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 19:47