Nicola Musatti a écrit : > On Feb 21, 10:55 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Carl Banks a écrit : > [...] >>> C++ is a compile-time, type-checked language, which means it is >>> totally safer for newbies than Python. Yep, your big company is >>> totally safe with newbie C++ programmers. >> Mouarf ! Brillant demonstration, thanks Carl !-) >> >> (and BTW, +1 QOTW) > > Newbies learn, and the fundamental C++ lessons are usually learnt > quite easily.
Which is why the most common source of nasty bugs in C++ apps - even coded by experimented, careful and talented programmers -has to do with dangling pointers, memory leaks, erroneous typecasts and other related niceties... Things that are somewhat less likely to happen in Python. > Unless we're talking about idiots, that is, but in this > case at least C++ is likely to make their deficiencies evident sooner > than most other programming languages. Here at least you have a point !-) > So, yes, your big company is > likely to be safer with newbie C++ programmers than with Python newbie > programmers. Sorry but I don't buy your arguments. > Had we been speaking of productivity... but we weren't, were we? Should we ?-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
