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The statement by the authors that the language effects are "small" is very strange: the only non-language "big" effect they found was that projects with lots of
by paulajohnson 12y ago
The statement by the authors that the language effects are "small" is very strange: the only non-language "big" effect they found was that projects with lots of commits have lots of bugs, and that 99% of the bug count variance was due to commit count variance. Well gee.
Once you factor out commit count, the impact of language turns out to be quite large. A Haskell project can expect to see 63% of the bug fixes that a C++ project would see. I don't call a 36% drop in bugs "small".