Re: Compilation Quotient (CQ): A Metric for the Compilation Hardness of Programming Languages

Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com>
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:30:37 +0100

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From: Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:30:37 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 24-06-003
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Keywords: parse, practice
Posted-Date: 10 Jun 2024 16:43:26 EDT
In-Reply-To: 24-06-003

John,


> This preprint from TU Delft and ETH Zurich generates small programs from
> the grammars of several popular programs, and calculates CQ, which is
> roughly the percentage (0-100) that compile, intended as a proxy for how
> hard the languages are to write. C has a CQ of 48, Rust barely above
> zero.


The paper
Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers
https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20121205/index.html


made small changes to existing code, in various languages,
and then measured how many compiled, ran and produced
the correct output.

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