Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Neil Hodgson]

Grant Edwards:

> That said, the last time I looked the Ada spec was only something like
> 100 pages long, so a case could be made that it won't take long to
> learn.  I don't know how long the C++ language spec is, but I'm
> betting it's closer to 1000 than 100.

   The Ada 2012 Language Reference Manual is 860 pages and the Ada 2005
LRM was 790 pages. The annotated versions are even longer
http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada12.html

   Neil