Thanks for bringing it back to the OP's topic, but I was specifically addressing the quote the OP made about number of errors per LOC tally. I was pointing out

Thanks for bringing it back to the OP's topic, but I was specifically addressing the quote the OP made about number of errors per LOC tally. I was pointing out how it could be weak metric, since the languages used in the examples might contain many LOC of template boilerplate that would make for a low bug:LOC off the bat. An ADA hello world is 5 LOC vs. 1 for a lot of other languages. Java is not too different. J and Python are 1 LOC, and typically not template text, but originally coded.