Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages

From	John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages
Date	2024-06-10 14:21 +0200
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<24-06-003@comp.compilers> (permalink)

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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.

In the discussion at the end they say "A programmer's task is to write
programs that compile." which I think summarizes the basic problem with
the paper.  Take a look.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04778

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-06-10 14:21 +0200
  Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Jon Chesterfield <jonathanchesterfield@gmail.com> - 2024-06-10 19:20 +0100
    Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> - 2024-06-11 00:28 +0100
    Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2024-06-11 07:57 +0000
      Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> - 2024-06-11 22:45 +0100
        Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at - 2024-06-14 16:00 +0000
  Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> - 2024-06-10 20:30 +0100
  Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2024-06-12 11:27 +0200

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