[oclug] Re: [OPAG] contest

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 01:02:50PM +0000, Dave Edwards wrote:
> 
> 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.

    Actually, as I just posted to the opag list, I'm finding that at high
numbers, the identical implementation in Python is twice as fast as the Perl
implementation. It's a big surprise for me. 

    I hope readability is a criterion. My Python is certainly more readable
than my Perl, and I'm really trying. :)

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca> 
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