I have found a very interesting paper called "Are Scripting Languages Any Good? A Validation of Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl against C, C++, and Java"(2002).
Four scripting languages are introduced shortly and their theoretical and purported
characteristics are discussed and related to three more conventional programming lan-
guages. Then the comparison is extended to an objective empirical one using 80 imple-
mentations of the same set of requirements, created by 74 different programmers. The
limitations of the empirical data are laid out and discussed and then the 80 implementa-
tions are compared for several properties, such as run time, memory consumption, source
text length, comment density, program structure, reliability, and the amount of effort re-
quired for writing them. The results indicate that, for the given programming problem,
“scripting languages” (Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl) are more productive than conventional
languages. In terms of run time and memory consumption, they often turn out better than
Java and not much worse than C or C++. In general, the differences between languages
tend to be smaller than the typical differences due to different programmers within the
same language.
After reading the article I got so inspired that I decided to try and solve the programming problem using C++(and I finished it). It is a logical problem that will show the programming languages performance.
This paper is dated 2002 so I guess there has been a lot of updates to many of the programming languages used in this study. It would be very nice if we could do an up to date comparison today to see how big of a difference it is today. Perhaps we are mostly interested in performance, memory consumption, code length, development time. What do you think? Any takers on this?
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I have found a very interesting paper called "Are Scripting Languages Any Good? A Validation of Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl against C, C++, and Java"(2002).
You can find it here --> http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio//jccpprt2_advances2003.pdf
Here is the abstract copied from the paper:
Four scripting languages are introduced shortly and their theoretical and purported characteristics are discussed and related to three more conventional programming lan- guages. Then the comparison is extended to an objective empirical one using 80 imple- mentations of the same set of requirements, created by 74 different programmers. The limitations of the empirical data are laid out and discussed and then the 80 implementa- tions are compared for several properties, such as run time, memory consumption, source text length, comment density, program structure, reliability, and the amount of effort re- quired for writing them. The results indicate that, for the given programming problem, “scripting languages” (Perl, Python, Rexx, Tcl) are more productive than conventional languages. In terms of run time and memory consumption, they often turn out better than Java and not much worse than C or C++. In general, the differences between languages tend to be smaller than the typical differences due to different programmers within the same language.
After reading the article I got so inspired that I decided to try and solve the programming problem using C++(and I finished it). It is a logical problem that will show the programming languages performance.
If you are only interested in the programming problem you can see the website here --> http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/phonecode/
This paper is dated 2002 so I guess there has been a lot of updates to many of the programming languages used in this study. It would be very nice if we could do an up to date comparison today to see how big of a difference it is today. Perhaps we are mostly interested in performance, memory consumption, code length, development time. What do you think? Any takers on this?
Regards,
Krangelmat