Someone tried to quantify programming languages with regards to code size vs runtime speed

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Permalink Reply by Kurt Olsen on June 1, 2009 at 9:36am

Thanks for pointing out this article. For a decade I'm been arguing that most computer science graduates haven't been taught scientific methodology. This can be seen in many 'web shops' where 5 programmers in a room will have 5 (radically) different ideas on 'what is best'. Without science in the mix, it's a crap shoot, and all of us end up paying the price for the many non-scientific decisions the herd makes.