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The code size metric was pretty interesting to me. I would have imagined that functional programming languages should lead to the most succinct code. But I was
by raz32dust 8y ago
The code size metric was pretty interesting to me. I would have imagined that functional programming languages should lead to the most succinct code. But I was surprised to see Haskell in the middle, and Go at the top there! Functional languages are right in the middle for all 3 metrics.
- userbinator 8y agoUnfortunately there are no APL/array languages there, they are notorious for being succinct! It's not a stretch to say "lines of code" in most other languages would be close to "characters of code" in APL. It'd be interesting to compare it using the other metrics too.