Quote: programmers 2-3x faster with script languages

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Figure 6 shows the total work time for … [p. 28] script programmers and as measured for the nonscript programmers. We … long to write as nonscripts, which have a … [in the study's design] may have exaggerated this difference. [Does not include Java which behaves like a nonscript language in this regard]. … Most programmers in the script group used the … In contrast, essentially all the nonscript programmers chose … [storing the dictionary in arrays or a 10-ary tree]. … Despite the existence of hash table implementations in …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: script programmers used associative arrays while non-script programmers used arrays and 10-ary trees

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