Article of interest: Python pros/cons for the enterprise

[Ryan Ginstrom]

> On Behalf Of Nicola Musatti
> Newbies learn, and the fundamental C++ lessons are usually 
> learnt quite easily. Unless we're talking about idiots, that 
> is, but in this case at least C++ is likely to make their 
> deficiencies evident sooner than most other programming 
> languages. So, yes, your big company is likely to be safer 
> with newbie C++ programmers than with Python newbie programmers.

The danger of memory leaks alone makes C++ a decidedly newbie-unfriendly
language. Java I might go along with, but C++?

Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
(who learned C++ before Python and has grappled with his share of memory
bugs)