On: My experience with the computer language shootout

[igouy]

Here's how Alex Gaynor compared his program to your programs-

"It's not used to do any crazy hackery like the LuaJIT one, just to access the libc write() function."

[mikemike → igouy]

So what? Look at the C, Ada or ATS submissions for even more 'crazy hackery'. My programs are quite straightforward in comparison.