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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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Bruce Stephens |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:25:53 +0000 |
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Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> I am willing to accept as a hypothesis that some languages may be
> faster to write than others, but there is no more than
> circumstancial evidence in both directions. Furthermore without a
> way to quantify the skill of a programmer in a given language, in a
> manner comparable to the skill of a different programmer in a
> different language, I don't think it is possible to have real
> evidence either way. So you won't really get much mileage out of
> it.
I'm reasonably sure I've seen cites of research comparing productivity
across languages and individuals. I agree that it seems impossible to
eliminate all of those issues; however, the issues don't look that
different from those in other fields, so I imagine researchers have
developed approaches to investigating such things.
> Subjectively, the programmer appears to be the primary factor in
> determining productivity, not the language.
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure the available evidence supports that.
Joel Spolsky argues (in a small part of this article) that languages
do make a difference, but that the largest proportion of it is simply
automatic memory management
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html>. It seems likely
that he's really comparing languages which aren't that different from
each other though, like C++, Java, C#, rather than more radically
different languages where you might hope advanced things (higher-order
functions, etc.) would make an impact.
[...]
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: darcs vs tla, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: darcs vs tla, Yann Droneaud, 2004/11/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Yann Droneaud, 2004/11/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Jan Hudec, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Aaron Bentley, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Karel Gardas, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Florian Weimer, 2004/11/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla,
Bruce Stephens <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Robert Collins, 2004/11/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Miles Bader, 2004/11/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Cameron Patrick, 2004/11/16
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/22
- [Gnu-arch-users] Safer star-merge (was Re: darcs vs tla), Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Catalin Marinas, 2004/11/15
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, Mark Stosberg, 2004/11/08
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla, John Goerzen, 2004/11/11