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

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John,

> 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.

The paper
Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers
https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20121205/index.html

made small changes to existing code, in various languages,
and then measured how many compiled, ran and produced
the correct output.

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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
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