Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!
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Productivity and reliability depend on the length of a program’s text, independent of language level used.
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Albert Endres, H. Dieter Rombach, A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories (2003), ISBN 0321154207, p. 72Fernando J. Corby Corbato
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The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.
Fernando J. Corby Corbato
Clearly, one can obfuscate one's ideas with a compiler language but it's harder. To some extent one is talking about what one wants rather than how one wants to do it. The trouble with machine code, of course, is that when you look at a random section of machine code you don't know what properties of the instructions the programmer really wanted to exploit.
Fernando J. Corby Corbato
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
Larry Wall
Language and the human spirit are inextricably intertwined. We interpret the world through language. We express ourselves through language. Language is powerful. Language can bring us together or set us apart. It can be used to include — to bridge barriers between cultures, religions, worldviews — at the same time as it can be used to exclude by inflaming xenophobia and racism. Language can establish community and solidarity at the same time as it can be used to erect boundaries and divide communities. More often than not, when we turn on the TV we see language used to occlude — to hide reality — to deceive, to spin, to distract, to disempower, to reinforce us versus them conceptions of humanity. Language is no longer innocent. We can no longer conceptualize language as some kind of neutral code that can be taught in classrooms in splendid isolation from its intersection with issues of power, identity, and spirituality.
Jim Cummins
Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language.
Marshall McLuhan
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