I find myself wondering where Rebol would stand in this. On Nov 19, 2012 8:35 PM, "KC" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am leery of code comparisons (but not Timothy Leary of them). > > Clojure being a JVM language has the advantage of the massive Java > class libraries. > > If Haskell could tie in fairly seamlessly to the Java class libraries ... > > If more developers learned the need for finer grained abstraction ... > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Gregory Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is some interesting data in the article at: > > > > Code Length Measured in 14 Languages > > > http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/11/14/code-length-measured-in-14-languages/ > > > > basically comparing program lengths in various languages, and some > ensuing discussion of how this relates to language expressiveness, etc. > > (He does all of his analysis in Mathematica, which is the goal of the > article.) > > > > It is interesting to see how well Haskell showed in the data; and it > would also be interesting to see how well it could replicate the analysis > example which was a nice example of web data scraping! > > > > The data is the length of a series of programs written in a number of > languages (data from: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code). > > (The columns don't map well to text only, Haskell column marked with > ≡≡≡≡ (Why doesn't this list support HTML?)). > > See nicer version at: http://pastehtml.com/view/ciy7woohv.rtxt > > > > The average for Haskell of 1.89 means that on the average the same > program in Haskell takes ~2x in the other languages. > > Given the correlation of size to clarity, complexity, effort, and > errors, this is a good thing! :-) > > > > Massive Snip! > > > > > Overall Ranking: > > Clojure 0.41 > > Haskell 0.83 > > R 0.85 > > MATLAB 1.14 > > JavaScript 1.27 > > Ruby 1.36 > > Common Lisp 1.56 > > Python 1.61 > > C++ 1.68 > > C# 1.85 > > Pascal 1.86 > > Fortran 2.33 > > C++ 2.58 > > C 4.09 > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > -- > -- > Regards, > KC > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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