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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Ada vs. COBOL study
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Date: 9 Jul 89 07:03:13 GMT
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Those "obvious" benefits of switching to a more advanced language
did not show up in the productivity studies of De Marco and Lister
reported in their book "Peopleware".  ( I may have the names wrong,
since this is from memory ).

They found that language did not have a correlation to performance
except that assembly language programmers got left behind.

						Tim Smith