[bip] Bioinformatics Programming Language Shootout, Python performance poopoo'd

[Andrew Dalke]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Paulo Nuin wrote:
> I don't think they would accept to withdraw the paper, especially  
> after
> being reviewed and accepted by the editor.

I'm not calling for a withdrawal.  This paper correctly reports their  
results.  That those results are only applicable to the one  
programmer who wrote the program just means that the paper isn't  
useful and easily liable to misinterpretation.

> I believe not testing programs is quite common in peer-reviewing as
> I had papers rejected that the reviewers never touched the software/ 
> code.

Sad but true.  Most people don't like to dig into someone else's code :)


				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com