Lacking manageability

Lacking manageability

Posted May 3, 2007 6:09 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Lacking manageability by robertm
Parent article: The Rise of Functional Languages (Linux Journal)

Capers Jones in "Applied Software Measurement" (1991), p.76 shows the same values for C and Lisp. Java did not exist, and C++ does not appear on its own; object-oriented default is listed at 29.

You are not alone at pointing out that functional code does more with less. Maybe the numbers are all wrong, but they were extracted for exactly this purpose: make high-order trends evident. So maybe object-oriented code does "even more with less", thanks to libraries and such. After all, code reuse has been sold as a major winning point for objects all along.

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