From: Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It depends on the problem. If it's chew up some XML, correlate, and spit
it back out, he'd have to be a God of C to be faster than learning Python
and using the libraries.
Disagree- you're comparing apples to oranges. If you want to include
Python's libraries, then you need to include the fact their 10 billion XML
libraries for C. So it would be far far faster for him to learn a library
in C than to learn Python and its library.
Java, Perl, Python, Tcl, Lisp, etc. are *very* obviously faster to develop
in than C/C++ except for very specific instances.
Disagree. Whatever you know best is fastest. I can code in C or C++ at
several times the speed of switching to any other language. Why? Because I
know them best. Even if the problem is regex, I'm better off using one of
the many regex libraries than using perl.
THe idea of one language being better than another for "productivity" is
pure bullshit. No language is more productive than any other, except for
personal experience in it. What tends to speed or not speed things up is
availability of libraries that can reduce the need to write code.
Gabe
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