From: fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:33:45 GMT
Subject: Productivity and the two language approach (was: Using Python for Modular Artificial Intelligence code)
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Ilja Heitlager <news at helen.demon.nl> wrote:
> >http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html
> 
> Thanks. Note for Tim (I am becoming evangelistic) productivity increase
> measured from 4-60 for 8 different projects!

careful with those figures.  iirc, they describe existing
projects that were rewritten in Tcl by experienced
programmers, and seem to focus on coding and code
debugging efforts only.  there's a lot more to take into
account out in the real world...

python's no silver bullet, you know...

(but it's a damned good tool!)

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