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There is some empirical evidence. I can't find it now but I've seen research showing Lisp beating all languages in terms of speed of creating some programs from
by zzzcpan 8y ago
There is some empirical evidence. I can't find it now but I've seen research showing Lisp beating all languages in terms of speed of creating some programs from scratch by both experienced Lisp developers and students new to the language. Obviously no research for large projects, those can only be researched through things like github data, etc.
- Jtsummers 8y agohttp://norvig.com/java-lisp.html http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html Start there, some more links from there to details on the study and follow-ups.
- bjourne 8y agoThanks for the links! Of those, the only one I can find dealing with development speed in Lisp vs other languages is http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf and that study is flawed due to the self-selection of test subjects. Given 50 years of http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie the amount of empirical results is very low.
- bmn__ 8y agoUlrich Stärk's empirical research (no Lisp): https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://www.plat-forms.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://www.plat-forms.org/ It is hard enough to get study participants for the common programming languages, I deem it nigh impossible for the obscure ones.