Programming language productivity

[Connelly Barnes]

Hi Python folks,

I created a summary PDF of two studies on programming language productivity:

  http://barnesc.blogspot.com/2006/05/programming-language-productivity.html

One notes that Python and Perl are the two best languages by the "number of hours to
solve problem" metric.

I ran into these studies when I was learning Common Lisp, and Googled "lisp
productivity."  The 2nd hit described the frustrations of Brandon Corfman in trying
to reproduce Norvig's Lisp solution to a problem.  This led me to Norvig's article,
which cited the two given studies.  There may be entire areas of academia
devoted to studying the "productivity problem;" if so, then I am not familiar with
the research in that area, so please let me know where I should look for better/more
recent research!

 - Connelly Barnes


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