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What is any of this based on? I could just as well say that the Haskell software we have in production has essentially never had a bug over 3+ years of runtime,

by nilkn 7y ago

What is any of this based on? I could just as well say that the Haskell software we have in production has essentially never had a bug over 3+ years of runtime, despite being a complex, high-performance, heavily multithreaded service. But I wouldn't expect you to take that as a universal accounting of the language's relative strengths and weaknesses.

tsimionescu 7y ago
It's based on this study, and a few other I don't have on hand: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-study-of-programming-languages-and-code-quality-in-github/abstract https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scal... They find some effect of language on defects, but it is small, and there are other factors with much larger impact.