On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Well, his Viaweb company was founded in about '95, right? So he >>> probably just used Lisp because Python wasn't as well known yet. ;-) >> >> That is what I thought too. It makes sense but I wasn't sure. Still >> ain't. The problem is that questions like 'What lang is fastest to >> develop in?' are hard to answer definitively. > > True. You might start by asking which lets you write the fewest LOC, as > studies during the 70s showed that programmers tended to write the same > number of LOC/day, regardless of the language chosen. > > The problem with the LOC measurement is that the most productive days > are the ones where you refactor and eliminate a thousand LOC. That sort > of throws the whole thing off.
As in: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt Perhaps the real question, then, is which language allows you to delete lines of code most quickly. tom -- find porn apricot -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
