Productivity and the two language approach (was: Using Python for Modular Artificial Intelligence code)

[Steven D. Majewski]

On 3 May 1999, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> "Ilja Heitlager" <news at helen.demon.nl> writes:
> 
> | Is there anybody who has detailed numbers on the productivity
> | increase using the two-language approach.?
> 
> The canonical paper is "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the
> 21st Century" by John Ousterhout, inventor of Tcl.  It has a table
> with some quantitative but anecdotal numbers on productivity.
> 
> http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html
> 

The introductory chapters of the swig manual have a very nice writeup 
of the  rationale of the two language approach: 
					<http://www.swig.org/doc.html> 


No attemps to measure productivity though, but that's very difficult
to do. It's expensive to develop everything in duplicate or triplicate, 
and when you're done, it's not clear what you've measured. 


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