Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have here a library (it's the client side of a client-server > interface including a pile of class definitions) which has > implementations in pure C++, Java and Python, taking about 3000, > 3500 and 1500 loc respectively. And there's an associated module > (with no C++ implementation) that I remember being particular > "impressed" while writing it to find being 3 times as long in Java > as Python despite (a) extensive (and pretty much common) Javadoc/ > docstrings and (b) implementing in the Python version a feature > present in the standard Java library (scheduling a thread to run > at specified intervals and time out). Strip the Javadoc/docstrings > out and it's about at that 5:1 ratio.
This claim seems pretty dubious to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
