Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Carl Banks wrote:
> On Aug 3, 7:07 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em... at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>   
>> Mozilla is fed up with C++ and seems to be working on its own language,
>> called Rust:
>>
>>    http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009
>>     
>
> That looks much better than Go.
>
> It's like all the cool features of Go without the annoying polemics.
> I'm starting to get the feeling one of these languages is going to hit
> a sweet spot and turn C into the next Cobol.
>
>
> Carl Banks
>   
I hope you're right, for our children sanity :)

JM