LXer: Languages don't breed bugs, PEOPLE breed bugs, say boffins

LXer · 11-06-2014, 12:20 PM

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If you want to spark a religious war, express an unshakeable preference for a programming language, and by preference, make your favourite something relatively obscure, like Erlang. It turns out, according to a study by a bunch of UC Davis boffins, the differences in code quality between languages are pretty small.

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dugan · 11-06-2014, 12:56 PM

Here is a link to the study being discussed:

http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf

Don't bother clicking on the link; it's The Register. When you see a Register headline that looks interesting, you just skim the article it until you have enough information to locate the source, then you look for the sources and read that instead.