Productivity and the two language approach

[Dan Schmidt]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

| Ilja Heitlager <news at helen.demon.nl> wrote:
| > >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!
| 
| careful with those figures.  iirc, they describe existing
| projects that were rewritten in Tcl by experienced
| programmers, and seem to focus on coding and code
| debugging efforts only.  there's a lot more to take into
| account out in the real world...

They are split fairly evenly (3/5) between projects that were written
in Tcl first, and projects that were written in C/C++ first.

As you'd expect, the projects that were written in Tcl second did show
more of an improvement.

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