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Re:The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages | D... by bunderbunder on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:58AM (#4417102)
The last paragraph of the article is devoted to explaining why that is.

PHP was still a bit surprising, but the answer might be in the list there, too. Any list that ranks classic ASP, COBOL, and C# has to be working with source data that represents a very particular and non-representative corner of the software industry. Of course with a chance to look at that data costing €5,200 we can probably only speculate. . .

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Re:The Comparative Productivity of Programming Languages | D... by brentashley on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @10:12AM (#4417400)
As was softbuilder, I was motivated to ABORT before the last paragraph - thanks for persevering for the team!

Reminds me of the Monty Python killer joke sketch where the joke is translated by a team of people line by line.

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