Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: >> Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >>> Superfically, because Ada isn't succinct. Lines of code productivity >>> is constant. Verbose languages are less productive. >> >> Where is the proof for that? You're saying that because I have to type >> more I'm less productive? If my typing speed was my limiting factor, >> then maybe. But I would hope that programmers spend much more time >> thinking than typing. > > It isn't typing speed. It's richness of concept. > > There have been two studies I know of that concluded the same thing. > Speed of lines of code generated tends to be constant irrespective of > language.
This is measuring the wrong thing though. Even with verbose languages like C or Java, very little developer time is actually spent generating code. If you make code generation 3x slower but speed up reading, debugging or refactoring times by 10%, it is a net win. > And, I cannot find either study with Google. Useless POS ... Use Yahoo (yes, I'm partisan and yes I'm suspect that the results will be about as useless for you). ;-) --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
