On Jun 19, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Wolfgang Müller wrote:

> 1. Gurus in every language solve given standard problems, like e.g.
> parsing of web pages, indexing text, etc.etc. (suitable problems would
> need to be found).

This sounds a bit like Lutz Prechelt's study (see 
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf), 
except that there was only one problem, the implementers were 
self-selected and not necessarily gurus.

Unsurprisingly, scripting languages took the least time to write and 
had the lowest LOC.  OCaml wasn't part of the study, but the 
methodology was interesting.

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