Bruno Pedro's public notes
Language evaluation criteria
Here’s a list of criteria that can be used to evaluate languages. In particular, these criteria can be used to evaluate programming and also query languages.
- Readability
- Simplicity
- Orthogonality
- Data types
- Syntax design
- Writability (all readability characteristics, plus)
- Abstraction
- Expressivity
- Reliability (all writability characteristics, plus)
- Type checking
- Exception handling
- Restricted aliasing
- Cost
- Simplicity
- Orthogonality
- Cost of compilation
- Cost of execution
- Maintainability