[TriZPUG] programming language wars, fought by economists

[Elliott Hauser]

From a comment on that writeup:

"Interesting, but not at all surprising based on how these languages work. But more importantly, this seems like the wrong metric. In an age of cheap hardware and fast processors, who cares about machine time? It’s programmer time (or in this case, economist time) that’s truly scarce. C++ runs fast, for example, but you have to understand pointers and the terrible standard library. Python is slower to execute, but is beautifully simple and makes it easy to understand what’s going on. It strikes me, especially if we’re trying to be scientific about it, that simplicity and comprehensibility are the more valuable traits."

^ this

I'm disappointed this didn't take into account the cost of human time, being economists. They acknowledge this in the paper but essentially say 'speed is easier to measure', ignoring power http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html

Elliott Hauser
CEO, trinket
(919) 308-6681

> On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:00 AM, trizpug-request at python.org wrote:
> 
> Send TriZPUG mailing list submissions to
>    trizpug at python.org
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>    https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>    trizpug-request at python.org
> 
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>    trizpug-owner at python.org
> 
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of TriZPUG digest..."
> 
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1. programming language wars, fought by economists (Jeff Trawick)
>   2. Re: programming language wars, fought by economists
>      (Chris Calloway)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:26:56 -0400
> From: Jeff Trawick <trawick at gmail.com>
> To: "Triangle (North Carolina) Zope and Python Users Group"
>    <trizpug at python.org>
> Subject: [TriZPUG] programming language wars, fought by economists
> Message-ID:
>    <CAKUrXK41GDTf+VrsGVCDAeBW5WtBMKMCEiO5HQQNPyKRL8qU+A at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/a-comparison-of-programming-languages-in-economics.html
> 
> -- 
> Born in Roswell... married an alien...
> http://emptyhammock.com/
> http://edjective.org/
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/trizpug/attachments/20140702/6353dc90/attachment-0001.html>
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:45:32 -0400
> From: Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu>
> To: "Triangle (North Carolina) Zope and Python Users Group"
>    <trizpug at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriZPUG] programming language wars, fought by economists
> Message-ID: <53B46F6C.5020205 at unc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
>> On 7/2/2014 3:26 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote:
>> http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/07/a-comparison-of-programming-languages-in-economics.html
> 
> Wow. Numba is faster than Julia? That's worth knowing. Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
> office: 3313 Venable Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Subject: Digest Footer
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriZPUG mailing list
> TriZPUG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> End of TriZPUG Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2
> **************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/trizpug/attachments/20140703/7baf7574/attachment.html>