Re: Codd provided appropriate mathematics ... (was Re: Relational and MV (response to "foundations of relational theory"))

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From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 04:06:35 GMT
Message-ID: <fhe%b.122045$jk2.530361@attbi_s53>

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:403cce4a.19945970_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:02:20 GMT, "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com>
> wrote:
>
> >The general takeaway is that programmer productivity is quite similar
> >across languages as measured in lines of code
>
> I disagree. When I code in SQL or Tutorial D I produce much less lines
> of code than in Java or C# in the same time.

Sure; me too. But these languages weren't in the test set.

I think the basic idea that brevity has value is not altogether unreasonable, especially if the starting point is, say, C++ or Java.

Marshall Received on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 22:06:35 CST