Re: Re: There's Only One Way To Do It

Sure, I participated in that study (by contributing a sample in Perl). The research was the work of a man named Lutz Prechelt. He published a paper entitled "An Empirical Comparison of Seven Programming Languages". CiteSeer has an entry for this paper, and has cached PDF and PostScript versions of it.

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Re: Re: Re: There's Only One Way To Do It by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 07, 2004 at 18:22 UTC
Thank you for the reference. Having re-read the results, my summary was inaccurate in a number of particulars (one reason that I try to double-check information before I post). However my memory was in some sense "morally correct". I'd suggest that anyone who finds the topic interesting should skim the original paper and discover for yourself how I was wrong, and in what sense I was right.	[reply]