Python for air traffic control?

[Ralf Muschall]

18k11tm001 at sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:

> of those kinds of errors. If I change the order of two ints in a
> function interface, for example, the C++ compiler won't have a clue
> that the interface has changed.

If you *use* ints in such a place, it is not the compiler who was
clueless.  Ints are for "for"-loops and for filling machine registers,
abusing them for data types which happen to be isomorphic to int (as
e.g.  struct total_number_of_airplanes_t is *evil*.

Ralf