Python Productivity Gain?

[Paul Prescod]

Matthias wrote:

>...
> 
> I checked the first 30 out of the 16,000 pages found.  It is about
> what I expected: Mostly advertisement for products and "solutions".
> Maybe one of the pages might qualify as an empirical study.  
> 
> This industry is on a random walk... ;-))

Despite the smiley I think it is worth putting this in perspective. Take 
a random language implementation from 1975 and try implementing 
something in it. I think that you will find strong anecdotal evidence 
that Things Are Getting Better. It is a frustratingly slow and 
inefficient but one that nevertheless seems to move in the right direction.

  Paul Prescod