[FWP] Re: Results of Language Comparison Study

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 12:42 PM 2/29/00 -0500, John Porter wrote (to advocacy@perl.org):

>Lutz Prechelt has released a report on the results of his programming
>language comparison study.  It is very interesting indeed!
>
>The document is available as a gzipped PostScript document (81k) --
>         http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.ps.gz
>
>and as PDF (144k) --
>         http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.pdf

This paragraph was worth the price of admission alone:

>In the script group, my personal impression is that the Perl subjects 
>tended to be more capable than the others.
>The reasons may be that the Perl language appears to irradiate a strange 
>attraction to highly capable programming
>fans and that the "fun with Perl" mailing list on which I posted the call 
>for programs appears to reach a
>particularly high fraction of such persons.

And then there was the table which showed the "language level" of Perl was 
more than twice that of the next highest (personally, I disagree that the 
number for Tcl was a typo :-)


--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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