That's because my whole point is that programming is much too rich and complicated for any one metric to be particularly useful. I think that's where Paul disa

That's because my whole point is that programming is much too rich and complicated for any one metric to be particularly useful. I think that's where Paul disagrees. I don't have enough experience to agree or disagree with either one of you - it would be nice if Paul were right, and there were a simple "rule of thumb" metric that could guide him to create the 100-year language, but your point sounds truthy also.