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|    Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric     |
|    10 Jun 24 20:30:37    |
      From: derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com              John,              > This preprint from TU Delft and ETH Zurich generates small programs from       > the grammars of several popular programs, and calculates CQ, which is       > roughly the percentage (0-100) that compile, intended as a proxy for how       > hard the languages are to write. C has a CQ of 48, Rust barely above       > zero.              The paper       Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers       https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20121205/index.html              made small changes to existing code, in various languages,       and then measured how many compiled, ran and produced       the correct output.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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