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From: bob@sdcsvax.UUCP (Robert Hofkin)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Language level measurements query
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 12:48:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 12:48:13 1985
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We've been talking a lot of folklore and hypothesis about "which
languages are higher level".  I think most of us have found one or
another programming language to be more productive for us (for certain
classes of problem, anyway).  But personal bias ("it works for me, so
it must work for you) isn't very convincing.

Does anyone have decent MEASURES of language "level," one against
another, on a set of programs?  To me, that would be the amount of code
AND length of time a programmer competent in the particular language
would need to write those programs.  Average lines of code per day is
insufficient!

If so, please send me references.  If not, I have an idea for a USENET
experiment.

--Bob Hofkin   ...!sdcsvax!bob