emo@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (03/02/88)
The SIGPLAN article by Howard Trickey is a well written report concerning productivity factors for a particular programming project. However, I feel it extremely important to understand that the comparison is between particular *implementations* of C++ and Common Lisp. Different implementations might weigh out differently when similarly considered... We don't use programming languages, per se, but implementations of them. There can sometimes be great variance leftover after the standard semantics have been satisfied, especially when being observed from the perspective of a typical user... e.g. how big the system is, etc. The more abstract one becomes with the parameters being measured, the more abstract will be the resulting figures. And then, at some measure of abstraction, programming languages start to have many similarities. Personally, I would like to see reports comparing Scheme to other languages, like C++. Does anyone have anything they'd like to contribute? eric ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Eric Ost CSnet: emo@indiana Computer Science Dept. Usenet: emo@iuvax Indiana University Arpanet: emo@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (812)-335-5561 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;