Why C++ appears twice in the Overall rank?
2012/11/20 Gregory Guthrie <guth...@mum.edu> > 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! :-) > > Code Size relative to Mathematica > Larger numbers indicate that the language on top needs more code. > > C C++ Fortran Java CLisp Python C# JavaScript > R MATLAB Clojure Pascal Haskell Ruby Average > ??????????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? > ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ≡≡≡≡ ???? > Mathematica 17.0 9.1 8.1 6.4 6.3 7.2 > 6.4 5.0 3.2 3.2 1.6 5.8 3.5 5.2 6.29 > Ruby 2.7 1.8 1.9 1.3 1.1 1.1 > 1.5 1.0 0.7 0.9 0.4 1.4 0.7 1.27 > Haskell 3.6 2.7 2.5 2.0 1.6 1.7 2.2 > 1.5 1.1 1.5 0.7 2.1 1.4 1.89 > Pascal 2.2 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.8 0.8 > 1.0 0.8 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.5 0.7 0.89 > Clojure 8.8 5.3 5.2 3.6 3.7 3.3 3.8 > 2.5 1.9 2.9 5.0 1.5 2.6 3.85 > MATLAB 3.6 2.4 1.8 1.1 1.4 1.1 1.7 > 0.9 0.8 0.3 1.6 0.7 1.1 1.42 > R 4.7 3.3 2.4 1.9 1.8 1.7 > 2.1 1.5 1.3 0.5 2.2 0.9 1.4 1.98 > JavaScript 2.8 2.1 1.9 1.2 1.2 1.1 > 1.6 0.7 1.1 0.4 1.3 0.7 1.0 1.31 > C# 2.0 1.4 1.3 0.9 0.8 0.8 > 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.3 1.0 0.5 0.7 0.87 > Python 2.2 1.6 1.5 1.1 0.9 > 1.2 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.3 1.3 0.6 0.9 1.07 > Common Lisp 2.8 1.8 1.6 1.3 1.1 > 1.3 0.8 0.6 0.7 0.3 1.3 0.6 0.9 1.16 > Java 2.1 1.4 1.5 0.8 0.9 > 1.1 0.8 0.5 0.9 0.3 1.2 0.5 0.8 0.98 > Fortran 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.8 > 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.66 > C++ 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.6 0.6 > 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.4 0.6 0.61 > C 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.5 > 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.41 > ???????????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? > ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ≡≡≡≡ ???? > Overall: 4.1 2.58 2.3 1.68 1.56 1.61 > 1.85 1.27 0.85 1.14 0.41 1.86 0.83 1.29 > > 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 > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Feng, Boqun School of Software,Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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