I've always kind of felt that any claim to empiricity in programming language comparison will be fatally undermined by a focus on only one task. The choice of task itself is very opinionated in a way that makes it difficult to apply the conclusions of this study more broadly.
FTA: "It must be emphasized that the results are valid for the phone code problem only; generalizing to different application domains would be haphazard"
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I've always kind of felt that any claim to empiricity in programming language comparison will be fatally undermined by a focus on only one task. The choice of task itself is very opinionated in a way that makes it difficult to apply the conclusions of this study more broadly.
FTA: "It must be emphasized that the results are valid for the phone code problem only; generalizing to different application domains would be haphazard"