C++ bad-mouthing (was: Why learn Python ??)

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> Presumably the IRS requires networking, some user interface
> capabilities, probably a bunch of database interfaces, really
> sophisticated testing, and these days maybe even some standardization
> in the area of, say, XML or something like that.

I think if there's one application that needs decimal arithmetic...