Hi Python folks, I created a summary PDF of two studies on programming language productivity:
http://barnesc.blogspot.com/2006/05/programming-language-productivity.html One notes that Python and Perl are the two best languages by the "number of hours to solve problem" metric. I ran into these studies when I was learning Common Lisp, and Googled "lisp productivity." The 2nd hit described the frustrations of Brandon Corfman in trying to reproduce Norvig's Lisp solution to a problem. This led me to Norvig's article, which cited the two given studies. There may be entire areas of academia devoted to studying the "productivity problem;" if so, then I am not familiar with the research in that area, so please let me know where I should look for better/more recent research! - Connelly Barnes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
