Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[Yann Droneaud]

Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 20:40:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:21:51AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> > I also agree that programs look much nicer and easier to
>> > write in a high level language.
>> 
>> This is also a feature of programmers, not languages.
>
> There is an interesting paper by Paul Graham. He has a hypothesis, that
> a programmer can write about the same number of tokens in a unit of
> time, no matter what language he is writing them in (or little matter).
>
> Now that would mean, that programming is more efficient in a higher
> language. The higher here means it can do more work with one statement.
>

"it can do more [improper, invalid, faulty, bad] work with one statement" 

Higher languages makes bigger mistakes, low level languages makes a lot of
small mistakes, so the results are generally the same.
Only the programmer and his mind make a difference.

Regards.

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