SPUG: Coding Effeciency

[lee_vanhee at easyliving.com]

You can compare languages by the number of lines required to code a specified functionality. Software Productivity Research Inc. provides such a table. Check it out at:
http://www.spr.com/library/0langtbl.htm

It takes 2.5 times as many lines of Java or C++ to code a program compared to Perl.

It's not only more efficient to code in Perl, but your code will have fewer errors (because errors are proportional to the number of code lines).

Lee
Lee_VanHee at easyliving.com

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