Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
No, I was just making a joke based on the graphs given on the site mentioned earlier. > 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. No idea, I consider comparisons like this quite meaningless when people attempt to use them as a kind of quality measurement. -- John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/ personal page: http://johnbokma.com/ Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
