[Python-Dev] ANSIfication problems: warnings in marshal.c

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tim Peters wrote:

> At the O'Reilly conference, it was announced that the Perl rewrite in C++
> (codenamed Topaz) has been abandoned.  I didn't attend that session, but my
> impression from others is that they attempted to model Perl objects directly
> by C++ objects, and were frustrated by the consequent lack of low-level
> control.

As another data-point, I've heard from reliable sources that Topaz was
written to use bleeding edge C++, including all manners of weird
templates.
C++ I might  be able to live with, but a very least common denominator C++
-- otherwise you hurt the well-known Python portability, which is a major
strength.

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