My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Jan 17 12:42:39 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:17:18AM +0000, Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 January 2019 at 04:04:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > One major takeaway is that the bugs/line are the same regardless of
> > the language used. This means that languages that enable more
> > expression in fewer lines of code result in fewer bugs for the same
> > functionality.
> > 
> Is the data to support this conclusion freely available on the web
> somewhere?
> 
> My impression is that Python is considered the easiest language to
> use. If it has no more bugs per line than a statically typed program
> that seems to suggest that non-speed-critical work should be done in
> Python.

No, if the number of bugs is truly proportional to the number of lines,
then we should all ditch D and write APL instead.  :-P


T

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