The beginning
Even though there are many language tests out there on the internet, I wanted to have a go at it myself, to find out the cases I wanted to know about and to have control over the test. Also, I wanted to do it because I thought it might be fun to write a little testing framework and reporting tools! (And it would make some nice weekend programming)
But even though this might be a bit whimsical, one real question I've had for some time is "how fast/slow is Python compared to C#" (Or C++ even) ? So I went ahead and tested the languages I come across most often: C++, Python & C#.
If you want to skip to the results, here they are:
And here is the code:
