Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
Neil Cerutti
neilc at norwich.edu
Tue Dec 17 09:51:39 EST 2013
On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at 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.
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Neil Cerutti
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