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At the core of the recent benchmark is the Levenshtein Distance algorithm, a method for determining the difference between two strings based on the number of edits required to transform one string into the other. While the concept itself is sound, the execution and comparison of results across multiple programming languages have been questionable.
The benchmark has depicted Fortran as performing significantly better than other languages, leading to the suggestion that developers might choose Fortran over more contemporary languages due to its purported performance advantages. Yet, this sweeping conclusion raises many questions about the credibility of such tests and the assumptions behind them.