[xigoi]

> site should ask for the language used to solve the problem and then use this as semi-scientific data for comparing "time-to-solution" for various languages.

I think this would just show you the average time zone of the language's users.

[pedrosorio]

Today 4 minutes gets you top 1000. There’s more than enough users starting when the problem gets released that an analysis could be done by checking for solutions submitted within the first hour.

[bmitc]

I generally find time to solution uninteresting and that how closely the solution models/mimics the problem statement the far more interesting thing.

I imagine that there’s a wide breadth of languages showing up in the top results but would guess that it skews towards imperative languages. Yet, the functional languages will almost read like the problem statement, which is what I find wonderful.

[morelisp]

Only if language choice isn’t correlated with timezone. I suspect for many it is.