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python vs java & eclipse

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Tue Dec 12 13:22:29 EST 2006 
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.
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