Article of interest: Python pros/cons for the enterprise

Jeff Schwab jeff at schwabcenter.com
Tue Feb 26 12:07:34 EST 2008


Nicola Musatti wrote:
> On Feb 24, 5:25 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>> Jeff Schwab <j... at schwabcenter.com> writes:
>>>> there's actually a published book specifically about C++ pitfalls.
>>> Mercy, a whole book?
>> http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?EAN=97802...
> 
> Read the title. This is about "C Traps and Pitfalls". Although it
> shows its age, it's still worth reading. Unfortunately from its price
> you'd think it was handwritten.

That is not a book about C++ pitfalls.  That is a book about C pitfalls. 
  They really are two very different languages.  Don't get me wrong, C++ 
has pitfalls of its own -- perhaps the worst of which is writing C and 
thinking it's C++ in anything other than a superficial sense.  But there 
are vanishingly few cases that could lead to out-of-bounds indexes or 
dangling pointers anymore.



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