Python vs. C/C++/Java: quantitative data ?

[Anthony Barker]

Check out :
": Lutz Prechelt wrote "An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, 
Python, Rexx, and Tcl for a Search/String-Processing Program in which he 
compares productivity and program performance for 80 different 
implementations of the same requirements, in 7 languages."

http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf



"Eduard Smirnov" <Ed.Smirnov at mail.ee> wrote in
news:3c75f5b3$0$149$bb624dac at diablo.uninet.ee: 

> I’m writing a diploma paper on the difference between scripting (e.g.
> in Python or Tcl) and system programming (e.g. in C, C++ or Java), and
> one of the claims I want to make is that you can often develop
> applications 10x or more faster in a scripting language.
> I apologue that more applications can be written or re-written in
> scripting language faster and with more complex functionality then in
> system programming language.
> If you have any experience in writing applications in system
> programming language (e.g. in C, C++) and re-writing it in scripting
> language (e.g. Python) or vice versa, please compare your work in both
> implementations, describe your work/application’s functionality,
> approximate number of lines and time of development of each
> implementation, skill’s level needed. Any more comments about are
> welcome. 
> 
> Additional thanks for copy your answer to my e-mail.
> 
> Eduard.Smirnov at mail.ee
> Tallinn Technical Univercity
> Estonia
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