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How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis (boyter.org)

submitted 1 day ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/908809

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah I think just counting fully unique lines is going to really capture the repetitiveness of a language. I think you'd get more accurate results just asking people using pairwise ranking.