On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:21:39 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs > > per program written in different languages. I expect that, for > > all we like to make fun of COBOL, it probably has few bugs per > > unit-of-useful-work-done than the equivalent written in C.
> I can't think of a reference, but I to recall that > bugs-per-line-of-code is nearly constant; it is not language > dependent. So, unscientifically, the more work you can get done > in a line of code, then the fewer bugs you'll have per amount of > work done. Enter the (One-Liner) Dragon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
