Take Two

Or, as it is also known, missing the point completely.

I was reading an article called Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs. …

An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity when I came across this comment about one of the solutions (emphasis mine):

(6) The Rapide solution was written by several researchers at Stanford and TRW, and is perhaps the most difficult to assess: the prototype was not only not executed (at the time no compiler or interpreter was available), but also did not address the essential functionality of the geo-server. The developers chose instead to address software architecture issues, emphasizing Rapide’s utility in that domain. For purposes of comparison, it may be best to ignore this entry, but we did not want to eliminate it from the results, since it is included in [LBK 94].

Yep. That sounds like researchers for you.