Experiences converting Python to C++

[Alex Martelli]

"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On 19 Aug 2001 02:44:50 -0700, aito at carenet.co.jp (Akio Ito) wrote:
>
> >henrik_ekelund at yahoo.com (Henrik Ekelund) wrote in message
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> >> We have to convert a large system (10000 lines) ...
>
> Hah. I just read this for the second time. I saw "large
> system" and so of course saw this as "100,000 lines". A
> 10,000 line program is a "large system"? Surely thou
> jesteth?

10,000 lines of Python are a lot -- I think they translate
to (depending) 50,000 to 100,000 of C++.


Alex