Python for air traffic control?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Alex Martelli [SMTP:aleaxit at yahoo.com]
> In exchange, please look at
> Lutz Prechelt et al's 1999 "phonecode" study -- e.g. at
> http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/documents/jccpp_tr.pdf.
 
This is a really interesting study, so far as it goes. What I'd *really*
like to see, though, would be something similar to this which included
metrics on the *maintainability* of code in various languages. It could run
in a similar fashion to Prechelt's study, but then include a stage where the
resultant program sources were forwarded on to different developers, along
with a revised spec.

I don't know about everybody else here, but I spend easily ten times as much
time fixing and/or modifying existing code as I spend writing new stuff.

I'd like to see Perl keep up with Python in *this* study! <wink>

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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