language evaluation metrics?

kcooper@cs.ubc.ca (Kendra Cooper)
19 Nov 1998 23:28:50 -0500

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From:	kcooper@cs.ubc.ca (Kendra Cooper)
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers,comp.lang.misc
Date:	19 Nov 1998 23:28:50 -0500
Organization:	Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Keywords:	question, comment

Hi,

Does anyone know of references to metrics for evaluating the
completeness, expressivenes, ???, of a language?

Thanks in advance,

Kendra
[Pretty much any programming language is Turing complete, so I'm not
sure how meaningful such measures would be. -John]