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A comment on The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by edem on Monday July 02, 2018 @06:38PM (#17445966)
What do you mean by absolute metric?
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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by nordsieck on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:10AM (#17447459)
A metric based on raw participation numbers rather than one that is inherently relative to other languages.

E.g. the number of commits on Github vs percent of total commits on Github.

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