I don't think typing speed factors into it. It's more a factor of cognitive load. While programming you are working at the level of "expressions", and your spee

I don't think typing speed factors into it. It's more a factor of cognitive load. While programming you are working at the level of "expressions", and your speed is limited to how quickly you can turn business logic into appropriate sets of expressions. Programming languages that are lower level require more expressions to say the same thing, hence are slower to program in. I don't think it's a controversial notion to say that assembly is less productive than C, which is less productive than Python. The reason is the number of lines (or rather expressions) needed to achieve a piece of functionality. The business logic most definitely does not take the same amount of time when written in assembly compared to python. The higher level languages tend to be more productive, but it is only a given if the higher level language is actually more concise. Here are some papers that underbuild this argument: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer... https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/rerg/amadeus/teaching/seminars/seminar_ws0203/Seminar_3.pdf https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/rerg/amadeus/teaching/seminars/semi...