After C++, what with Python?

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Sun Jan 16 02:04:40 EST 2011


On 1/15/2011 10:48 PM, Aman wrote:
> @nagle Means you are suggesting me not to proceed with Python because I've had experience with C++?

   No, Python is quite useful, but on the slow side.  If you're I/O
bound, not time critical, or otherwise not performance constrained,
it's quite useful.  The language is really quite good, but there's
some excessive dynamism which has caused every attempt at an optimizing
implementation to fail.

					John Nagle




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