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Some folks have decided to continue this shootout project hosted at the Debian Alioth site:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Please go there for updates. And always remember to have some fun.

The shootout project on my site has not been updated since the fall of 2001, and is now frozen as it is. I'm sorry, but no updates will be made here.

The original shootout is now here if you want to see it. It was never finished and contains errors. It should not be relied on as a true inter-language performance comparison.

I've had hundreds of requests to update the shootout since it was closed. I've filed them all away so I can refer to them if the shootout is ever resurrected. If you do send me an update, it will go into this file, and in the unlikely event that the shootout is resumed, your update/request will be processed in the order it was received.

My favorite languages from the shootout are still the ML family, and in particular Ocaml.

Aldo Calpini's Windows version of the shootout is still here.

I've been asked about the license of the shootout, and I consider it in the public domain, except that some individual contributions contain copyright statements of their respective authors.