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More empiricism!

Thanks to Matthias Felleisen, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Kim Bruce, I can list more papers that apply empiricism to explore programming languages.

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  1. Some more references I am aware of:
    - P. Hudak, M.P. Jones, Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs. ... - An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity, July 1994 (DARPA, ONL, NSWC)
    - L. Prechelt, An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl, IEEE Computer, October 2000
    - E. Gat, Lisp as an Alternative to Java, Intelligence, Winter 2000.
    - M.T. Daly, V. Sazawal, J.S. Foster, Work in Progress: an Empirical Study of Static Typing in Ruby, PLATEAU Workshop 2009.
    - S. Hanenberg, An Experiment About Static and Dynamic Type Systems, OOPSLA 2010.

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  2. Look at the PLATEAU workshop series of papers.

    http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/PLATEAU/

    PLATEAU 2012 will also be on again at SPLASH this year too.

    https://sites.google.com/site/workshopplateau/

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