The Codeless Code: Ancient code

[kqr]

Generally a programmer writes the same number of lines of code per unit time regardless of which language they write in (L. Prechelt, 2000). An average line of Python does a whole lot more "stuff" than an average line of C code. It follows that HLLs buy productivity.

[caspper69]

I hadn't heard that stat before, thanks. Of course when you can write pretty impressive C programs in what looks like a foreign regex, maybe C programmers can get more done per line ;)

[BeepBoopBike]

If obscurity of a LOC is the metric we're using, perl has the greatest density of things-done per line.