Productivity and the two language approach (was: Using Python for Modular Artificial Intelligence code)

[Ilja Heitlager]

Dan Schmidt wrote in message ...
>The canonical paper is "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the
>21st Century" by John Ousterhout, inventor of Tcl.  It has a table
>with some quantitative but anecdotal numbers on productivity.
>
>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!

Any numbers on Python/C or JPython/Java already? (both productivity and
performance)

Ilja