Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-08-04, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Wow.  That's grown a lot over the years.  I used to have a paper copy,
(single-sided), and it was only about 1cm thick.  Ok, I guess that was
probably 20 years ago...

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