LXer: Languages don't breed bugs, PEOPLE breed bugs, say boffins
Published at LXer:
If you want to spark a religious war, express an unshakeable preference for a programming language, and by preference, make your favourite something relatively obscure, like Erlang. It turns out, according to a study by a bunch of UC Davis boffins, the differences in code quality between languages are pretty small. Read More... |
Here is a link to the study being discussed:
http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf Don't bother clicking on the link; it's The Register. When you see a Register headline that looks interesting, you just skim the article it until you have enough information to locate the source, then you look for the sources and read that instead. |
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