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Subject: Re: Languages don't  matter.  A mathematical refutation
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Jean François Martinez <darkquark99@gmail.com> writes:
> So for six years students had to do it in C...
> Then professor switched to Ada ... 
> At this point the only thing we can say is "the difference between the 
> results obtained by the Ada teams those of the teams is far too high for
> "luck".   We have to look at the possible causes.   What changed? ...

One possibility is C has a longer learning curve but catches up in
productivity once the programmer is used to it.  I don't particularly
believe that theory, but the experiment would be more convincing if it
involved teams of experienced programmers rather than students.