greetings, presumably most of the ErlangQuestions readers have already seen this: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/06/032213.shtml?tid=126&tid=156 which is really about http://www.dadgum.com/james/performance.html and the latter even includes a reference to _Great Computer Language Shootout <http://www.bagley.org/%7Edoug/shootout> bengt _