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[Philippe C. Martin]

Being a C programmer before a C++  I am not certain my opinon qualifies.

Yet I have seen myself avoiding C++ contracts lately because I dread going
back to that type of work: why use silex when you got a match ?




Adriaan Renting wrote:

> I'm not a very experienced Python programmer yet, so I might be
> mistaken, but there are a few things that would make me prefer C++ over
> Python for large (over 500.000 LOC) projects.
> - namespaces
> - templates
> - strong type checking
> - data hiding
> - more available libraries and more advanced developement tools.
> 
> I'm talking about managing the code, not the programmers, the project or
> schedules or what have you. Those are independent from the chosen
> programming language.
>
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>> Ultimately, manageability of a project is far and away more about the
>> people involved and the techniques used than it is about any single
>> technology involved.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
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>>>> <python-list-bounces+renting=astron.nl at python.org> 06/30/05 4:15 PM
>>>>
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> 
>> Harry George wrote:
>> > "Adriaan Renting" <renting at astron.nl> writes:
>> >>Both VB and Python are easier to learn as the more powerful
>> >>languages, the price is that they lack features that make it easier
> to
>> >>manage large and complex projects.
>> > What is a large project, and what is Python missing that C++ and
> Java
>> > have for such tasks?
>> 
>> But C++ and Java have features that *management* likes, thus making it
>> "easier to manage large projects".  (That says nothing about whether
>> or not it makes it easier to produce quality code, successful
>> projects, happy customers, large profits, or any such silly
>> things... just that it's "easier to manage". ;-)
>> 
>> Less facetiously: I have managed a large Python project or three, and
>> several large C++ projects (and, thankfully, no large Java projects)
>> and found Python quite up to the task.  In fact, if anything the C++
>> projects ended up more in danger of succumbing to the sheer weight of
>> the code than did the Python projects.  But I attribute this more to
>> the fact that we had evolved to using agile approaches with the Python
>> projects than to any of those special features either present or
>> lacking in C++.
>> 
>> Ultimately, manageability of a project is far and away more about the
>> people involved and the techniques used than it is about any single
>> technology involved.
>> 
>> -Peter
> 
> That's our experience too (and the reason I asked).  I wonder if the
> OP will respond.
> 
>