Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> writes: > A better metric is whether using N features has O(N) complexity, or O(N^2) > (where you have to understand how each feature relates to each other > feature) or even O(2^N) (where you have to understand every possible > combination of interactions).
M. Felleisen wrote a paper trying to formalize some metric on the expressive power of programming languages. I skimmed through it for about a minute and wasn't convinced, but it apparently has gathered some respect. I want to read it more carefully sometime: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.4656 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list