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		adventureloop on Sept 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brilliant or insane code? > Errors per LOC is allegedly constant, across all languages. This implies that more expressive languages(more expressions per line) are less prone to errors. You conclusion would be correct if he had stated that error per expression was constant between languages.

chii on Sept 2, 2013 [–]

Don't confuse correlation with causation. It may not be that more lines is the cause, but that the method of thinking that some languages require you to think in is error prone, and it just so happens that such a language also needs more LoC.

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