Why Python/Jython?

[Steve Holden]

"Steve Purcell" <stephen_purcell at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Andreas Freier wrote:
> > In several articles I read that Python/Jython imporoves the programmers
> > performance many times. Why?
>
> Simple: Python code is usually many times shorter than the corresponding
> Java code.
>
> Programmer performance is usually gauged by coding time and
> number of bugs, both of which are vaguely proportional to the number of
> lines of code in most sane languages*.
>
> * Perl is a noteworthy exception
>
I saw no inconsistency here. Why would Perl be an exception to your rule?

regards
 Steve