Re:Storm 2.0
by pron on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:42PM
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> This isn't what you said.
I can't repeat all the caveats every time I say something. I assume readers believe my comments are at least reasonable, even if they disagree with them. For convenience, I restated the current state of knowledge more precisely in my previous comment. If you're interested in what I have to say, assume I'm not an idiot, and perhaps we could have an interesting discussion, and if you think I'm an idiot, then there's no point in arguing at all.
> Show me the study that says that.
Show me the study that says otherwise. I don't need to provide evidence for the lack of an effect (although I did). The lack of an effect is, at the very least, the default hypothesis in this case (as in many others) as there is no theory suggesting we should believe otherwise (while a theory that explains why languages increasingly have smaller effects has made correct predictions).
> It can if done properly
That's your hypothesis. We've been trying to find evidence of that, or others like it, for a long time -- both in academia and in industry -- without success. We simply do not observe that the choice of language today (among reasonable ones etc.) has a big effect, either in studies or in industry practice. But if you've found a language that can drastically reduce software development costs and/or increase quality at scale, that discovery can be easily translated to billions of dollars. Go ahead and make them.
I can't repeat all the caveats every time I say something. I assume readers believe my comments are at least reasonable, even if they disagree with them. For convenience, I restated the current state of knowledge more precisely in my previous comment. If you're interested in what I have to say, assume I'm not an idiot, and perhaps we could have an interesting discussion, and if you think I'm an idiot, then there's no point in arguing at all.
> Show me the study that says that.
Show me the study that says otherwise. I don't need to provide evidence for the lack of an effect (although I did). The lack of an effect is, at the very least, the default hypothesis in this case (as in many others) as there is no theory suggesting we should believe otherwise (while a theory that explains why languages increasingly have smaller effects has made correct predictions).
> It can if done properly
That's your hypothesis. We've been trying to find evidence of that, or others like it, for a long time -- both in academia and in industry -- without success. We simply do not observe that the choice of language today (among reasonable ones etc.) has a big effect, either in studies or in industry practice. But if you've found a language that can drastically reduce software development costs and/or increase quality at scale, that discovery can be easily translated to billions of dollars. Go ahead and make them.