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As programmers we like our lines to have a given level of cognitive load, depending on personal taste, so regardless of the language you’ll end up with on avera
by Joeri 9y ago
As programmers we like our lines to have a given level of cognitive load, depending on personal taste, so regardless of the language you’ll end up with on average the same number of language constructs per line. In high level languages those constructs do more than in lower level languages, but since they are already debugged the defect rate per construct is not higher, ergo the defect rate per line is also stable across languages.
- lmm 9y ago> regardless of the language you’ll end up with on average the same number of language constructs per line I'm saying this isn't true. APL is the extreme example, but languages vary quite a lot in how many constructs you can and do cram onto a single line.