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Message: [QUOTE="Matthias, post: 1730377"] Why the smiley? Many hours of discussions could be spared if there were real, scientific, solid studies on the benefit of certain language features or languages in certain domains or for certain types of programmers. It would help get successful languages become accepted in slow/big/dump organizations. It would point language designers in the right directions. Project leaders could replace trail-and-error by more efficient search techniques. (Assuming for a second, programmers or managers would make rational decisions when choosing a programming language and having available trustworthy data.) I imagine such studies are quite hard to do properly, but having them would be useful. [/QUOTE]