Foot in mouth disease

[GerritM]

"Derek Thomson" <derek at wedgetail.com> schreef in bericht
news:3dc3dc4e$0$12762$afc38c87 at news.optusnet.com.au...
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> Then there's the fact that it takes between 5-10 lines of Java to do the
> same thing in Python, depending on what you're doing. Having a very high
> level language, as opposed to a high level one, definitely helps
> refactoring in that there's much less code to refactor. Look at the size
> of Fnorb (*), compared to Java ORBs. Or just look at the size of the
> Fnorb IDL compiler ... and it's even readable. I know which I'd like to
> be refactoring.
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> (*) http://fnorb.org
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Do you by any means have the data at hand (kloc's for Java, kloc's for
comparable Python; ORB and/or IDL compiler)? I am highly interested in any
substantiated evidence with respect to language efficiency/expressiveness.

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regards Gerrit Muller

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