On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:24:14PM +0200, Jonathan A Dunlap wrote: > Check it out: D is listed rather favorably on the chart.. > http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/07/23/are-we-getting-better-at-designing-programming-languages/
I'm skeptical about using LOC/commit as a metric for measuring expressiveness. First of all, does it take comments into account? 'cos if it does, then it's basically a useless metric. It's also too easily influenced by developer practices: smaller, more frequent commits vs. larger, less frequent commits. And it's biased by quality of code: just because a piece of code is buggy and has many 1-line fixes applied to it, says nothing about the expressiveness of the language itself. T -- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
