The previous post on this blog makes another worthless comparison, this time based on lines of code: https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/03/16/my-favorite-lan

The previous post on this blog makes another worthless comparison, this time based on lines of code: https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/03/16/my-favorite-language-has-changed-to-php/ https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/03/16/my-favorite-langu... > Like, look at this Merge Sort in C# [1] (130 lines) and then look at it in PHP (31 lines) [2]. You can’t beat that kind of productivity, not to mention in PHP, you can even mix data types (like ints and floats) where in the C# version, it’d be much more difficult. [1] https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorithms/Sorters/External/ExternalMergeSorter.cs https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorit... [2] https://www.w3resource.com/php-exercises/searching-and-sorting-algorithm/searching-and-sorting-algorithm-exercise-17.php https://www.w3resource.com/php-exercises/searching-and-sorti... The C# version is the first Google result for "c# merge sort". But a later result is from w3resource.com, which where the PHP code came from. That C# code is only 55 lines and could easily be shorter by replacing loops with standard library calls: https://www.w3resource.com/csharp-exercises/searching-and-sorting-algorithm/searching-and-sorting-algorithm-exercise-7.php https://www.w3resource.com/csharp-exercises/searching-and-so... Also, both versions of the code from w3resources.com are trash -- they use an O(N) step to remove an element from the front of the array (array_slice in PHP and List.Remove in C#), which makes them O(N^2 log N), which is even worse than a naive selection sort or bubble sort.