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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon hwayne

Programming language makes more productive

Open qznc opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Hype: Programming language X makes you more productive

Shower: An experiment with more than 600 professional programmers shows that (apart from assembly) programming language makes no difference.

Caveat: Was done in the 80s with Fortran, Cobol, C, Pascal.

Unfortunately, the book is not freely accessible. Maybe someone knows a paper version? Maybe even a more recent study?

qznc avatar Jul 24 '20 19:07 qznc

Code Complete, right?

hwayne avatar Jul 24 '20 21:07 hwayne

Peopleware. Oops, I did not intend to leave the book title out.

Found this excerpt. Is that ok for "freely accessible"?

qznc avatar Jul 24 '20 22:07 qznc

Fraid not :/ Rigorous sources are really important here, as they give the reader the ability to evaluate the data for themselves.

It might be more feasible to find a followup study with more modern languages. If you can find the original paper PeopleWare is citing (if any), we can use semanticscholar.org to trawl the citation graph.

hwayne avatar Jul 24 '20 23:07 hwayne