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| From | Martin Ward <mwardgkc@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages |
| Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:06:07 +0100 |
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On 10/06/2024 13:21, John R Levine wrote: > 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. > CQ is, very approximately, a measure of how likely it is that a compiler will detect a typo in your code (using "typo" in the broadest sense of: you are thinking of one program but actually type in something vaguely similar but different). "Almost any random garbage is a valid program in our language" does not appear to me to be a particularly attractive feature of a language. \-- Martin Dr Martin Ward | Email: [martin@gkc.org.uk](mailto:martin@gkc.org.uk) | <http://www.gkc.org.uk> G.K.Chesterton site: <http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc> | Erdos number: 4
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Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages Martin Ward <mwardgkc@gmail.com> - 2024-06-11 15:06 +0100
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