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I'd almost bet the author started with the conclusion and went searching for more data to back it up, so it's not a surprise to me that his data backs up his co
by jlarocco 14y ago
I'd almost bet the author started with the conclusion and went searching for more data to back it up, so it's not a surprise to me that his data backs up his conclusion.
And nobody is offering proof that this measurement is meaningful, so it should be ditched.
- dsberkholz 14y agoI started with a hypothesis that LOC/commit might be an interesting way to compare the productivity of languages, and I frankly had no clue whether it would produce anything useful or interpretable at all. When it did, I figured it was cool enough to write it up, although it's definitely fairly noisy data.