Python in a desktop environment

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Mar 12 11:58:25 EDT 2007


Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> Grant Edwards a écrit :
> (snip)
> 
>> 
>> Python is _far_ more robust than C++.
>> 
> 
> I wouldn't say so - robustness is a quality of a program, not of a
> language !-)

Nope. Dealing with dangling references and double frees, complex
copy-semantics that change only by a feeble character or via overloaded and
thus hard to comprehend assignment operators are all properties of C++, and
tremendously afflict robustness IMHO.

Diez



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