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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by eesmith on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:25AM (#29225440)
The classic, now quiet dated citation, is "An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl" by Lutz Prechelt.

Recent-ish commentary (July 2021) about it at https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-... , HN commentary at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108806 .

Google Scholar gives about 476 paper which cite Prechelt's work. I have not followed other work in that field.

Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by npsimons on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:01PM (#29230333)
Norvig had a response to Prechelt as well: http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html
Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by eesmith on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:21PM (#29230635)
Mentioned and used as the Lisp baseline in the link I gave. ;)
Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by npsimons on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:33PM (#29231601)
> Mentioned and used as the Lisp baseline in the link I gave. ;)

Just saw that, nice. I like Norvig because he really cuts to the chase.