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Re:Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language by chromatic on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:01PM (#3152304)
What an awful title.

What a silly thing to test in isolation; does the syntax of a programming language present a greater barrier to a novice than the semantics of programming?

A better study would have controlled for the ability of the eighteen participants to describe their algorithms in pseudocode.

Re:Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language by colanderman on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:49PM (#3152411)
It's not silly if it's significant.
Re:Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language by chromatic on Monday October 24, 2011 @09:54PM (#3152426)
If you can't isolate that sole characteristic, your findings aren't empirically significant.