Hey Dan - I've been lax about checking my e-mail while on vacation but this is an interesting paper. Maybe the people behind APL2010 could get in touch with the authors - the conference could provide them with potentially interesting data if they're interested in extending their study.
I've suggested this to them and cc'd you. Devon On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > I came across the following study, which compares various programming > languages for both productivity and performance. The programming > languages are broadly categorized into two sets: compiled and interpreted > (i.e. scripting languages). It's from 2000, so the languages involved may > have changed since, but it's a properly conducted study which draws > conclusions from both reason and statistical analysis. > > An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl > Lutz Prechelt > > http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf > ... > -Dan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
