In article <mailman.4286.1387291924.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano ><steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs >> per program written in different languages. I expect that, for >> all we like to make fun of COBOL, it probably has few bugs per >> unit-of-useful-work-done than the equivalent written in C. > >I can't think of a reference, but I to recall that >bugs-per-line-of-code is nearly constant; it is not language >dependent. So, unscientifically, the more work you can get done >in a line of code, then the fewer bugs you'll have per amount of >work done. > >-- >Neil Cerutti >
Makes no sense to me. I can't imagine that errors per 100 lines is anywhere near as high with a language that has garbage collection and type checking as with one that has neither. David -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list