Performance java vs. python

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Thu May 21 04:46:38 EDT 2009


namekuseijin <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find it completely unimaginable that people would even think 
> suggesting the idea that Java is simpler.  It's one of the most stupidly 
> verbose and cranky languages out there, to the point you can't really do 
> anything of relevance without an IDE automatically pumping out lots of 
> scaffold code for you.
> 

But that means Java programmers are obviously more productive than Python 
programmers: they produce many more lines of code per day even if much of 
it is boileplate or even automatically generated. Managers like that.

OTOH, I consider it a productive day if I end up with fewer lines of code 
than I started with.

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com



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