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On 04/19/2011 07:28 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> One comparative study, not entirely free of all bias I would think,
> but pretty close to standard experiments yielding valid data,
> was conducted over several years, by John W. McCormick. It is
> about a project that switched not subjects or algorithms but the
> language. The result was published in August 2000 as
> http://www.crosstalkonline.org/storage/issue-archives/2000/200008/200008-McCormick.pdf

In addition to McCormick's report, there's the Rational comparison of 2 
Ada-compiler projects:

archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html

archive.adaic.com wasn't responding for me, but Google has it cached.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"We call your door-opening request a silly thing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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