Is Python overhyped (just like Java)?

[David Abrahams]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nzDavid Abrahams wrote:
>> In my application it was easy to predict where the bulk of
>> the time would be spent, and had I written the core engine in C++
>> early on I might have saved myself a redesign effort.
>
> Or you could have designed that part of the system with
> a possible C++ interface in mind, if it turned out to
> be necessary later.

I thought I was doing that at the time.  The problem is that the
edges of subsystems define themselves differently when there's a
language boundary there from the beginning.

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Dave Abrahams
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