On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Greg Nisbet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregory.nisbet@gmail.com">gregory.nisbet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Anyway, IEVS is in C, RubyVote and PythonVote are obviously in Python,<br>
and my old code is in Java. If the community could settle on a single<br>
language for reference implementations (speed being less important<br>
here than clarity and familiarity) of various voting methods and maybe<br>
a quick language such as C, C++, D, or Java when additional speed is<br>
required, and possibly an efficiently parallelizable language (e.g.<br>
Erlang, Haskell) to allow for distributed computation and greater<br>
scalability.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I definitely agree on the "reference implementation" part. I vote for Python, but maybe someone should set up an approval-style poll.</div><div><br></div><div>As for a "fast language implementation" and a "parallel language implementation", that's not a bad idea, but I don't know that we're ready to maintain three different code repositories, yet.</div>
<div><br></div><div>~ Andy</div></div>