Python vs Ruby

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Fri Oct 21 18:44:32 EDT 2005


Casey Hawthorne wrote:
> I have heard, but have not been able to verify that if a program is
> about
> 10,000 lines in C++
> it is about
> 5,000 lines in Java
> and it is about
> 3,000 lines in Python (Ruby to?)

My experience is that Java:Python is roughly 2:1, the highest I have seen (on small bits of code) is 3:1.

Kent



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