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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Language Comparsion (Ada and Java)
Date: 1997/09/07
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Date: 1997-09-07T00:00:00+00:00
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<<Can anyone help me?  I writing a paper comparing Ada and Java and I
need aa metric to compare the languages.  Do anyone know of any metrics
besides Steelman?  If so, where can I find it.>>

Steelman is not a metric, it is a requirements document. Yes, you could
use it as a basis of a metric (e.g. what percentage of Steelman requirements
are met by a language), but I am not sure how meaningful that would be.
On the other hand, the idea of using quantitative metrics to compare two
programming languages turns out to be a bit bogus in the first place (never
mind, doing bogus things is often instructive in this context :-)