I'm looking for studies that objectively compare various languages to
measure the following attributes:
1. Ease of writing new code (better== faster, better==fewer bugs).
2. Ease of maintaining existing code.
3. Portability.
4. Time to learn language "adequately".
5. Speed of resulting code.
The last time I saw such a study was almost 10 years ago, compared only
C and Ada, and was found here:
http://www.rational.com/support/tech...c_and_ada.html
That URL is long dead but the contents are still available from the URL
via the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org.
Where are the recent equivalent studies?
Please, nobody reply with "X is better than Y because..." - I'm not
looking for opinions, I'm searching for studies that objectively
demonstrate the differences between languages.
Thanks,
David Mathog
ma****@caltech.edu