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Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu... by eesmith on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:00AM (#29225657)
Google Scholar is a better method to find published papers.

The first result for "program language comparison", at least when I view https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=programming+language+co... is: Prechelt, Lutz. "An empirical comparison of seven programming languages." Computer 33.10 (2000): 23-29.

There's all sorts of work which cite that paper, like "An empirical investigation of the effects of type systems and code completion on api usability using typescript and javascript in ms visual studio".

For fun, here are some of those citation which themselves use the phrase "An empirical study" or similar in the title:

"An empirical study on the impact of static typing on software maintainability"

"An empirical study of the influence of static type systems on the usability of undocumented software"

"Do developers benefit from generic types? An empirical comparison of generic and raw types in Java"

"An empirical study on C++ concurrency constructs"

"An empirical study on the factors affecting software development productivity"

"An empirical study to revisit productivity across different programming languages"

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