| Markus 2007-07-27, 4:17 am |
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> Markus E.L. wrote:
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> You can do objective and quantitative tests by writing equivalent programs
> in different languages and measuring their verbosity, e.g. the ray tracer,
> the symbolic simplifier, the Minim interpreter.
I think you got the message :-). I don't think those test provide
really hard irrefutable data, but at least some material for further
discussion and pondering. What I find so repugnant in many language
advocacy discussion how people already just know what is true and
right and so few ever are willing to go into formulating meaningful
questions and considering them in a more scientific spirit (meaning,
actually looking for answers instead of knowing them and trying to
convince the rest of the world. In my opinion that is what
distinguishes science from politics, not wether one got a research
grant or a PHD :-)).
Regards -- Markus
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