From: ···@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Subject: Regarding C++ vs. Lisp...
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The SIGPLAN article by Howard Trickey is a well written
report concerning productivity factors for a particular
programming project. However, I feel it extremely important
to understand that the comparison is between particular
*implementations* of C++ and Common Lisp. Different implementations
might weigh out differently when similarly considered...
We don't use programming languages, per se, but implementations
of them. There can sometimes be great variance leftover after
the standard semantics have been satisfied, especially when being
observed from the perspective of a typical user... e.g. how big
the system is, etc. The more abstract one becomes with the
parameters being measured, the more abstract will be the resulting
figures. And then, at some measure of abstraction, programming
languages start to have many similarities.
Personally, I would like to see reports comparing Scheme to
other languages, like C++. Does anyone have anything they'd
like to contribute?
eric
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