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Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing
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Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing


  • Subject: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing
  • From: Nadyne Mielke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:45:23 -0700 (PDT)

Marco Scheurer <email@hidden> wrote:

[snip]

> One such research was made in 1996. See for instance
> http://www.theadvisors.com/langcomparison.htm
> According to this table, coding in Objective C is twice as productive
> as coding in C++.

I seriously question the validity of that work. They're using function
points, which is a software metrics methodology developed for
functional programming languages. Function points don't work well for
functional programming languages, but are even worse for any
object-oriented language.

/nm
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