Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Christoffer Viken]

C++ is actually not that bad.
Can't compare it to C, but nothing compares to C...
I think the bad reputation it got (and still has) is from Microsoft's visual
studio IDE (that was and still is horrible)
A lot of good applications are written in C++, but many bad ones as well.

Sorry for swearing in the church, but I'm pulling out PHP as an example.
Easy on beginners, the fat that you can jump in and out of PHP mode helps
too. It attracts a lot of beginner developers, and most of them write bad
code. It does not make the language a bad language, in fact PHP5 is pretty
good, but it means that there is a lot of bad code out there, but then we
have gems like MediaWiki and Drupal that is really good software.

You can write bad code in any language, and many languages get a bad
reputation because a lot of bad code is written in it.
The real test is not how bad code you can write, but the limit for how good
code you can write without jumping trough (too manny) hoops.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:

> In message <roy-6BCFA7.22564104082010 at news.panix.com>, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > C++, for all its flaws, had one powerful feature which made it very
> > popular.  It is a superset of C.
>
> Actually, it never was.
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>



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