High-level languages, large projects, GNOME and the .NET controversy

[Michael Hudson]

paul at boddie.net (Paul Boddie) writes:

> It occurs to me that there are still many people who choose not to use
> languages of a higher level than C/C++ for development, and it would
> be interesting to know what their reasons are. Of course, writing a
> graphical toolkit *purely* in Python is somewhat ambitious, and there
> are clearly performance issues to be considered, but I still can't
> understand why people would want to write *entire* applications (of
> the nature discussed above) in C/C++ these days.
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me?

No, but I share you're bewilderment.

I've given my sigmonster some help for this post :)

Cheers,
M.

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  /* I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all
     the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
   */                       -- Jamie Zawinski from the xkeycaps source