2019-01-30 | Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others • The Register
'Tempting through it may be to believe that certain programming languages promote errors, recent research finds little if any evidence of that. '
'For the first proposition, they found small differences in the numbers of bugs associated with particular programming languages, but not enough to matter. '
'Berger said that looking beyond this specific study, the broader question question is whether programming languages make a difference. '
'"Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of programming languages based on large-scale code repositories is hard."'
'The original study purported to establish a correlation between programming languages and errors, one that people misinterpreted as a causal relationship, he said. '
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0 u/derram 01 Feb 2019 19:26
https://archive.ph/tZ9FI :
'Tempting through it may be to believe that certain programming languages promote errors, recent research finds little if any evidence of that. '
'For the first proposition, they found small differences in the numbers of bugs associated with particular programming languages, but not enough to matter. '
'Berger said that looking beyond this specific study, the broader question question is whether programming languages make a difference. '
'"Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of programming languages based on large-scale code repositories is hard."'
'The original study purported to establish a correlation between programming languages and errors, one that people misinterpreted as a causal relationship, he said. '
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0 u/justlogin 04 Feb 2019 14:18
Lisp is the most powerful programming language.
JavaScript rocks!
https://imgoat.com/uploads/d686fd640b/192814.jpg
I believe /dpt/ says these things to self-bump.