Java vs Python

Harry George hgg9140 at seanet.com
Fri May 26 18:14:36 EDT 2000


Robb Shecter <shecter at darmstadt.gmd.de> writes:

> Courageous wrote:
> 
> > > 1. Which is more maintainable ?
> >
> > Python. No comparison.
> 
> I wonder about this.  Python is much more maintainable in a practical way,
> because of the interpreter and reflective language features.  A good Java IDE
> like IBM Visual Age can make up for most of that, though.

No way.  In recent code I ported from java to python, the LOC dropped
by c. 50%.  A visual IDE isn't going to make up for that, esp. when
you add in the time for code reviews.  Maybe the LOC delta won't be
that large in all cases, but it is worth considering in your
discussions.

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Harry George
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