Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? by mruts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @07:23AM (#20050075)

There have been some papers published about languages and unsurprisingly, FP languages come out as the most time inefficient while Java comes last, even after C.

I’m not sure how they controlled for experience/skill as the Java developer is probably not as skilled as the FP person, but even so the results imply that choosing a programming language is a big deal, just as Paul Graham has espoused over and over again.

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Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? by commandlinefan on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:07AM (#20051239)

> FP languages come out as the most time inefficient while Java comes last

I'm confused - you say that FP languages are the most time inefficient - so they're the worst? That means that you're saying that Java is the most time efficient/the best? I'd be curious to see the paper.

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Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? by mruts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:47AM (#20052375)

Sorry I meant “efficient”

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Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? by commandlinefan on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:53PM (#20054665)

Ah - ok, that makes a lot more sense (and fits with what else I've seen on the topic).

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Re:Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? by danielscrubs on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:12PM (#20085537)

Interesting, I’ve read some but in all but one the sample sizes where waaaaaay to small (around 20). Do you have any links?

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