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Important for what? They are trying to do a study, not declare a flame war.

• yogthos 7y ago
  It would be an important factor when choosing a language obviously. If language A allows you to deliver same kinds of projects as language B, but with less people that's valuable information for the business.
  • danielscrubs 7y ago
    And that's not what they are trying to study: [the] association between eleven programming languages and software defects in projects hosted on GitHub. Nothing more, nothing less. If they wanted a "x is better than y for business", it would not be a serious study at all, just a bunch of journalistic edgy writing.
    • yogthos 7y ago
      Correct, this is outside the scope of the study. My point was that there are factors other than correctness that are important. Pron's comment implies that since there is practically no difference in quality shown across languages, that the language choice does not matter. However, clearly there are other factors that are important to consider.