Mike Meyer wrote: > There were studies done in the 70s that showed that programmers > produced the same number of debugged lines of code a day no matter > what language they used. So a language that lets you build the same > program with fewer lines of code will let you build the program in > less time.
In my experience the LOC count is *far* less significant than the levels of indirections. Eg. how many levels of abstraction do I have to understand to follow a traceback, or to understand what a method relly does in a complex system. -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
