These are discouraging stats to Perlistas & Pythonistas...

[Harald H.-J. Bongartz]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> jacob at cd.chalmers.se (Jacob Hallen) wrote in message
> news:<avfkpp$a7n$1 at nyheter.chalmers.se>...
>> 
>> An interesting thought is wether the 55 Python programmers will
>> produce more useful applications than the 2037 VB programmers.
> 
> It gets even more interesting if you take monkeys and typewriters into
> consideration.

Modern monkeys don't use typewriters anymore.  They use a serial console
with Emacs.  (They experimented with vi, but monkeys tend to press the
Esc key too often and 'i' or 'a' too rarely, so productivity was
reduced dramatically.)

Ciao,
        Harald [vim user]
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