Re: [FWP] Re: Results of Language Comparison Study

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:04:39AM -0800, Peter Scott wrote:
> 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!

No, he hasn't, not yet:

   If enough comments arrive quickly, I will prepare a final version
   of the report next week; please do not circulate the report in
   its current form.


> 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.

Unfortunately, it appears that Perl programmers are also not very good at
following directions.


Ronald

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