Sep 18

Code Bloat Comparison

Are All Programming Languages The Same?: Python wins with Perl and Ruby close on its heels.

Fair enough. Des Traynor wondered if this table was valid, so he performed a simple test: he provides examples of a tiny “read a file and print it to the console” app in Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby. I’ll reprint the smallest version here, which happens to be the Python implementation […]

Java was the big loser at almost 4x the lines of the Python version. However, see the comments for some complaints about whether or not to count bracket-only lines — a problem from which Python does not suffer. Ruby either, for that matter.

by Deane   September 18, 2005 10:37 PM   |

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by Joe,   September 19, 2005 8:21 AM  

This guy wrote too much Ruby code. I can do it in one line: 

 puts File.open('file.txt').read

Done. His version contains some exception handling, but if you're just going to print it to the screen anyway, may as well just let 'er fail.

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