Python is just as good as C++ for real apps

[Grant Edwards]

In article <83d6zuggfh.fsf at panacea.canonical.org>, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> dman <dsh8290 at rit.edu> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:59:00AM +0000, one2001boy wrote:
>> | C++ is for large-scale projects;
>> 
>> No way :-).  Python is better for that!
>> 
>> I'd like to see a statically-typed, compiled-to-native,
>> raw-pointers-included, python-like language.
> 
> How about OCaml?  Or what do you mean by "statically-typed python-like"?

I've always thought that dynamic typing was what gave Python
much of it's "flavor", so the phrase "statically-typed
python-like" seems like a bit of an oxymoron to me.

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