Re:Who cares about programming languages? (Score 1)

Programming languages? Unless it's a language (or programming paradigm) the programmer doesn't know (in which case it doesn't matter much whether it is Java, C, C++, Perl, Python or ruby) at all, the difference for the same programmer from one to another may exist (depending on how fluent they are), but likely more on the order of 10-20%.

When measuring such things as code quality, productivity and the number of bugs in programming projects, one of the few things that people agree on is that the number of bugs per line of code is fairly constant across languages. Because a program that accomplishes the same task is far shorter in a high level language like perl or python than in C or C++, the perl or python version also likely has far fewer bugs in it. So at least that way higher level languages have a large advantage over lower level ones.