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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> Or to put it another way:
> How come "more expressive" templates, "better exception handling",
> or "less verbose" syntax is not claimed to improve project success?
> Maybe I (still) don't get it.

To claim improved project success, you have to do some pretty difficult
basic research. Most of us here are programmers, not software engineering
researchers, so most of us at best have only anecdotal evidence. Therefore
when we compare languages we do so from the basis of things that affect us
as programmers.