python vs java & eclipse

[Amir Michail]

Re: python vs java & eclipse

Hi,

Here's a blog post that is relevant to this discussion:

http://sixthandredriver.typepad.com/...ted_refac.html

Amir

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Re: python vs java & eclipse

Amir Michail a écrit :

Hi,
>
It seems to me that measuring productivity in a programming language
must take into account available tools and libraries.
>
Eclipse for example provides such an amazing IDE for java that it is no
longer obvious to me that one would be much more productive in python
for medium sized projects.
>
Sure, all that Java static typing can be painful, but Eclipse takes
some of that pain away. Moreover, static typing can result in better
on-the-fly error detection and refactoring support.
>
Any thoughts on this?

Yes : Python's productivity does not only comes from dynamic typing.