Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: John R Levine Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:21:36 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Sender: johnl%iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <24-06-003@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="7385"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: practice Posted-Date: 10 Jun 2024 08:23:13 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3572 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 Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly