How Complex is Your Programming Language

Programming Language Complexity How complex is your programming language? In this article we’ll look at a few ways of quantifying complexity, and use it to look at a variety of programming languages in frequent use today. Why? When building emulators, we ultimately have to capture the complexity of another (hardare) system in software. Having some good way of looking at and comparing complexity is useful. Similarly, the tools (languages) we use for building these emulators impacts the complexity of the resulting work.