Programming language had little or no correlation with Coding War Games performance, with assembly language as the exception.

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"Programming language had little or no correlation with Coding War Games performance, with assembly language as the exception."

Participants using COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, and C showed broadly similar performance spreads, while assembly-language participants were the reported exception.

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Source title Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd edition

Source authors Tom DeMarco; Tim Lister

Source year 2013

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