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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: bugs in assembler vs. C
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 14:08:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 14:08:59 1986
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In article <6824@boring.UUCP> steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) writes:
>You can find some details in 'The Mythical Man Month' by FP Brookes, Addison
>Wesley, 1975. He quotes several large scale projects, and says that the
>exponent is 1.5 of the number of lines of code, regardless of language. It's
>a great book, and worth reading for his advice on running large-scale
>software projects.

   Assuming that this is true, then the more dense a language is, the fewer
the number of lines needed, and the fewer the bugs.  Comparing C and assembly
this seems true, but the number of bugs in an APL program compared with the
number of lines makes me think that this doesn't always hold true.  It sounds
like a nice generalization, but it does not take into account many things
about language density.
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