Gabriel comments on Open Thread, September 15-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 18 September 2012 03:05:35AM *  1 point [-]

Why is program length a silly thing?

Comment author: Gabriel 20 September 2012 01:10:13AM 1 point [-]

It was excessive to call it "silly" but program length still seems very imperfect way to measure the ease of writing programs in a given language. Better to directly measure things like programming time or number of bugs.