Python Productivity Gain?

[kbass]

"William Park" <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> kbass <kbass at midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> > In different articles that I have read, persons have constantly eluded
to
> > the productivity gains of Python. One person stated that Python's
> > productivity gain was 5 to 10 times over Java in some in some cases. The
> > strange thing that I have noticed is that there were no examples of this
> > productivity gain (i.e., projects, programs, etc.,...).  Can someone
give me
> > some real life examples of productivity gains using Python as opposed
other
> > programming languages.
> >
> > From my our personal experience, I have been programming with Python for
> > about 6 months (but I have been programming in other languages for over
10
> > years) and I have noticed that the more I had gotten use to programming
in
> > Python, the more my programming speed has increased. But ... this is
true
> > with any language that you program in as long as you are learning the
> > methodologies and concepts of the programming language.  Your thoughts.
>
> It used to be that Python programs were shorter, faster, readable,
> writable, and simply better.  But, this was during the days when most
> programmers had Unix background.  Nowdays, most of the programmers are
> coming from Windows background, and Python programs have become as
> verbose and unreadable as Visual Basic or Perl.
>
> Ruby has not been corrupted as such.  It make complicated thing less
> complicated.  But, it still make simply thing not as simple as Python.
>
> -- 
> William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
> Linux solution for data management and processing.

IMHO, the overall productivity gain of any programming language comes from
the programmers that are programming in the language. Productivity gain
comes from individuals and is not language based.

I thought that Python didn't allow for sloppy programming techniques due to
it's lines of code being indented throughout programs. Have Windows
programmers found a way pass this? Are you saying that some programmers with
a Windows programming background have poor programming practices when
compared to their Unix programming background counterparts?

Kevin