[snprbob86]

> This is a pretty good article

Thanks!

> he states 5, I bet it is closer to 20

I think it varies greatly with many factors, but agree that it's probably closer to 20. I'm just trying to avoid selling silver bullets.

> Has anyone ever measured a Reading Comprehension score for languages?

While language is a huuuge component of that constant factor, there are certainly other components. For example, if you want to write a sudoku solver, you should start by writing a backtracking constraint solver and then implement the constraint solver on top of it. You'll write less code than trying to solve sudoku directly, but that code will certainly be slower to read. This applies within a language just as much as it does across languages.