On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Jacob Atzen wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Jacob Atzen wrote:
This lead me to the question: Are there any scientific empirical
studies
of the values of static / stronger type systems as found in
Haskell, C#
or Java in real world settings? Or any studies comparing weaker type
systems in terms of programmer efficiency, defect ratio, etc.
I have been unable to find any such studies as it supposedly is
"common
knowledge" that strong type systems are of great value.
Additionally the
people I have asked the question was not aware of any such
studies, so
now I'm trying this list.
I still have not been able to find any studies on the subject even
after
trawling the ppig conference archives.
The following article might be relevant.
@string{TSE = "{IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}"}
@ARTICLE{PT98,
author = {Prechelt, L. and Tichy, W.~F.},
title = "{A Controlled Experiment to Assess the Benefits of
Procedure Argument Type Checking}",
journal = TSE,
volume = 24,
number = 4,
year = 1998,
pages = {302--312},
}
--
Martin
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