Article about code density as a measure of programming language power

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Published on 2010-03-09T19:06:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 14:43 UTC
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I remember reading an article saying something like

"The number of bugs introduced doesn't vary much with different programming languages, but it depends pretty much on SLOC (source lines of code). So, using the programming language that can implement the same functions with smaller SLOC is preferable in terms of stability."

The author wanted to stress the advantages of using Functional Programming, as normally one can program with a smaller number of LOC. I remember the author cited a research paper about the irrelevance of choice of programming language and the number of bugs.

Is there anyone who knows the research paper or the article?

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