John Bokma wrote: > Also note that Python programmers write more lines/hour which they need to > finish in the same time as Perl programmers :-D.
You probably want to say that a Python program tends to have more lines than an equivalent Perl program. I think that a LOC comparison between a language that enforces line breaks and another language that enables putting an lots of code in one line doesn't make much sense. I wonder why comparisons aren't made in terms of word count. Word count would include literals, constants, variables, keywords, operators, bracket- and block delimiter pairs. Python indent/unindent would of course also count as block delimiters. I think this would be a more precise measure for software size. Peter Maas, Aachen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
