[oclug] Re: [OPAG] contest

[Dave Edwards]

On Monday, August  6  4:17 pm, Michael P. Soulier wrote to OPAG:
>     Just to compare, here are my python and perl implementations of my
> solution for the prime numbers OCLUG contest. The implementations are
> identical, with only syntactical differences for the two languages.
>
>     The Perl code outperforms the Python slightly, but is, IMHO, far
> uglier, and took more effort to type.

Thanks, Mike.  That raises an interesting point:  is development time a 
criterion in the contest?  I don't think so, and how could you reliably 
measure it, anyway?  But it is a real factor in any comparison of 
programming languages, now that computers -- and memory and CPU speed -- 
are inexpensive or even trivial, and ``HR'' certainly isn't.  I suspect 
Python would outperform in this context.

Dave. 
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