http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/paul-graham-lisp-fanboy-extraordinaire/35 What I Read; What I Have Read; and stuff I pick up and drag along Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:40:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/paul-graham-lisp-fanboy-extraordinaire/35#comment-119561 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:20:27 +0000 http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/paul-graham-lisp-fanboy-extraordinaire/35#comment-119561 I know this was 3 years ago, but there have been studies showing a given programmer writes the same number of lines of productive code a day, on average, regardless of the language. So if you are a super-productive C programmer and can write 200 lines of C code, once you switch to Python and become used to it, you'll be able to write 200 lines of Python code a day. Since you can do more in 200 lines of Python than in C, you will be more productive. There is merit to this argument. I know this was 3 years ago, but there have been studies showing a given programmer writes the same number of lines of productive code a day, on average, regardless of the language. So if you are a super-productive C programmer and can write 200 lines of C code, once you switch to Python and become used to it, you’ll be able to write 200 lines of Python code a day. Since you can do more in 200 lines of Python than in C, you will be more productive. There is merit to this argument.

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