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> I've never understood why anyone uses the number of pages of the reference document as an argument I guess that, assuming that all refs have roughly the same
by shakow 6y ago
> I've never understood why anyone uses the number of pages of the reference document as an argument
I guess that, assuming that all refs have roughly the same information density, it gives a rough idea of the “size” of the language.
- jcelerier 6y agoThis assumption really doesn't hold though if you look at a couple different language standards
- rightbyte 6y agoIf you count the standard library in the size it is just an arbitrary number.
- wtetzner 6y agoUnless you're using the size of the standard as a rough measure of the complexity of creating a new implementation of the standard. If you need to provide an implementation of the standard library, then that contributes to the amount of effort required.