Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Return of the Applets? Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <-cednXIEsfRim7nInZ2dnUVZ8h2dnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="8072"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/p+3FR/7q63tzEPydso554Snq1P4ZpeC0=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XvrHmfdBlgPUXM4jsL4VxlXPucs= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31528 On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:18:00 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 4/7/2015 12:34 PM, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: >> For the purpose of measuring which language is used the most? Man-hours >> of developer effort per year seems the most obvious metric, although >> one could make an argument for dollars spent on development per year as >> well. >> >> > Which is directly related to LOC per year. LOC per programmer for > experienced programmers varies little with the language. > Yes, agreed. There's a fair amount of research been done on this and the number of lines of written, clean compiled *and unit tested* code produces by an individual programmer is remarkably constant regardless of the language being used. This is the main reason productivity rises as you progress along the sequence: assembler -> C/COBOL/Java etc -> 4GL -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |