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

Dan Schmidt dfan at harmonixmusic.com
Mon May 3 16:09:19 EDT 1999


"Ilja Heitlager" <news at helen.demon.nl> writes:

| Is there anybody who has detailed numbers on the productivity
| increase using the two-language approach.?

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

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