Python Productivity Gain?

Harry George harry.g.george at boeing.com
Fri Feb 20 05:02:08 EST 2004


Matthias <no at spam.pls> writes:

> Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com> writes:
> 
> > It is common for a ComSci prof or grad student to crank up such a
> > study, using undergrad and grad students as the subjects.  These
> > subjects can generally be coerced to participate ("it is required for
> > the course").  For "novice programmer" research, high school students
> > are often used.  These tend to be self-selected, and ar not
> > representative for the general population.
> 
> Are these studies published?  I see the limitations, but still would
> be interested in the results.  So far, I found only the papers of Lutz
> Prechtel et al. on the web.
> 
>   Matthias

I was talking about "programmer productivity" studies in general, not
specifically Python.  My point was that the experimental model is
convenient but not a very good representation of reality.

Google for "programmer productivity"

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