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Language productivity

Language productivity

Posted Feb 10, 2008 21:40 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Language productivity by i3839
Parent article: Interview: Mark "Markey" Kretschmann (Not the Gentoo Weekly News)

I don't say that language choice doesn't matter, it does, but it's much less than the impact of the included standard libraries and easily available libraries.
In that you are completely right. Witness Arc's challenge: the inventor of this new language, Paul Graham, is challenging people to come up with a shorter version of a barebones web application. And the responses: of course the framework is what counts, not the language.


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