Python Productivity over C++

Wim Lavrijsen wlav at hpatl26.cern.ch
Fri Jun 9 12:36:30 EDT 2000


"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at lemburg.com> writes:

>reduces LOCs, scales well (from 5-100k LOCs
>if needed -- which is roughly equivalent to 25-250k LOCs
>in C++ from my own experience).

This is interesting. Could other people confirm this? Ie. that the
trade-off for Python is larger at small projects (factor ~5) than at
medium sized projects (factor ~2.5)?

And what is the cause of the difference?

Best regards,
      Wim Lavrijsen




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