Python Productivity Gain?

[Dave Brueck]

kbass 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.,...).

If you're interested in funding a study, I'm sure you could get someone to do a
truer test. Short of that, the evidence is mostly anectdotal because it's rare
"in the real world" to rewrite one non-trivial application in a different
language just for the heck of it. There are almost always changes in program
architecture or feature set so that it's tough to do an apples-to-apples
comparison.

That said,

http://tinyurl.com/39jsh

-Dave