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[Thomas Heller]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

> "Adriaan Renting" <renting at astron.nl> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Just a single datapoint: Implementing a trivial COM object in Python
> requires, let's guess, about 10 or 20 lines of source code.
>
> When I do the same in MSVC6, the wizard creates 10 files, with nearly
> 400 lines of code.  Sure, I didn't have to write these code lines, but
> I'm required to understand and manage them as well.

Sorry, I forgot to include the .dsw and .dsp files in the above figure.
Including them brings the LOC count up to 750 for the C++ project -
although, to be fair, on the Python side a setup.py script for py2exe
would also have to be written.  In simple cases, this is another 10
lines.

Thomas