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I've been recently studying comparisons of programming languages/programming semantics and I've been reading papers on the subject. While I do not have strictly

by Morgawr 13y ago

I've been recently studying comparisons of programming languages/programming semantics and I've been reading papers on the subject. While I do not have strictly relevant papers (I swear I had but I can't find them right now, sorry), if you're interested on a broader subject, this could help: * What is the Impact of Static Type Systems on Programming Time? (http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/2009Program/plateau09-hanenberg.pdf http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/2009Pro...) * Heuristic Evaluation of Programming Language Features: Two Parallel Programming Case Studies (http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program/plateau2011-sadowski.pdf http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/foswiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program...) * Do Programming Languages Affect Productivity? A Case Study Using Data from Open Source Projects (http://sequoia.cs.byu.edu/lab/files/pubs/Delorey2007a.pdf http://sequoia.cs.byu.edu/lab/files/pubs/Delorey2007a.pdf) They are all (mostly) recent papers, at least post-2005. Furthermore, the Plateau international workshop might have some more material of interest: https://sites.google.com/site/workshopplateau/ https://sites.google.com/site/workshopplateau/ ps: this Thursday/Friday in Delft (NL - Europe) there will be a conference related on the subject of programming languages, it's free and might interest someone: http://eelcovisser.org/wiki/future-of-programming http://eelcovisser.org/wiki/future-of-programming EDIT: fixed second link

nbouscal 13y ago
You gave the same link for the first two studies you mention. Also, it's pretty easy to detect the author's heavy bias against type systems just from a quick perusal of the first page. The methodology used is extremely questionable, not to mention that he doesn't even consider languages with type inference.
- Morgawr 13y ago
  Whoops! Sorry, you're correct. I apologize for the wrong link (fixed now). And yeah, I agree that some studies are a bit biased (it's hard to find objective studies with a proper applied method). I just wanted to share some findings that might have been interesting to the reader and let him/her take home his/her own considerations on the matter. Entirely agree with you though.
- Sssnake 13y ago
  Not just biased, but also quite ignorant: >No-such-method exceptions mainly occur because of null-pointer exceptions (which occur in typed programming languages as well) Null is a solved problem. Completely and totally solved. The fact that he didn't know this is pretty amazing.

by Morgawr 13y ago

nbouscal 13y ago

You gave the same link for the first two studies you mention. Also, it's pretty easy to detect the author's heavy bias against type systems just from a quick perusal of the first page. The methodology used is extremely questionable, not to mention that he doesn't even consider languages with type inference.

Morgawr 13y ago
Whoops! Sorry, you're correct. I apologize for the wrong link (fixed now). And yeah, I agree that some studies are a bit biased (it's hard to find objective studies with a proper applied method). I just wanted to share some findings that might have been interesting to the reader and let him/her take home his/her own considerations on the matter. Entirely agree with you though.
Sssnake 13y ago
Not just biased, but also quite ignorant: >No-such-method exceptions mainly occur because of null-pointer exceptions (which occur in typed programming languages as well) Null is a solved problem. Completely and totally solved. The fact that he didn't know this is pretty amazing.