[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that questions like 'What lang is fastest to develop > in?' are hard to answer definitively.
That's because the answer depends on lots of context such what is the problem domain and who is the programmer. Really, it's an impossible question to answer. Measuring two different programmers with two different languages would give useless results, since you can't ensure the two programmers are equally capable. Using the same programmer for the same problem with two different languages doesn't work since she would learn from doing it the first time and inevitably have advantages in the second time through. Using two different problems is of course pointless as well. Ultimately, however, the question needs no answer, since "speed of development" is not the only or even the most important factor in development. Take into account issues of maintainability, quality of code, performance and such, and you've muddied the question even more, making this a religious question and one that has no meaningful answer, nor a need to be answered in a simple way. For *me*, Python has proven to be the fastest language to develop in, so far, but it's quite possible to imagine another language in the future which I might learn which would be -- for me -- even faster, at least for certain types of problems. (But so what? :-) ) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
