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by trapper 6011 days ago
One impossible study:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016762

1 comments

Do you think if it were repeated today with a recent version of the JDK Java development time might be less? Probably not as low as Lisp but things have improved in Java land since 1.2.

That synopsis of a study is nice but I'm still not convinced all the important variables were isolated.

Eclipse + java6 would make a marked difference, agreed.