Mike Meyer wrote: >> If OOP is so beneficial for large projects, why are the Linux kernel, >> the interpreters for Perl and Python, and most compilers I know written >> in C rather than C++? > > Because C++ combines the worst features of C and OO programming. It > also makes some defaults go the wrong way, and forces decisions onto > the programmer that are best left up to the compiler, as the > programmer is liable to get them wrong.
that's a nice rant about C++, but it's not the right answer to the question. the Python core developers are perfectly capable of writing working C++ code, and both the core and most extensions would benefit from C++ features (just look at Boost and other C++ layers). but C++ wasn't a serious contender back when CPython development was started, and nobody's going to convert the existing codebase... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
