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Comment by celrod

These were different teams of students taking a class. Variance in student effort/quality is generally high.

There were two Rust teams. One had 3x the code and passed less tests than the other. This is our only reference for how much noise is owed to team rather than language; no other language was used by more than one team.

Python did best (least amount of code, yet also the most features) less because of Python, but more because the best programmer was using it.

Would the other students have been able to take advantage of the duck typing and metaprogramming in the same way, or ended up following different designs? I'd have my doubts about the second Rust team.

Although that Python allowed these is a feature, but I think we're really just looking at noise.

parent celrod 7 years ago

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