Ryan Ginstrom wrote: >> On Behalf Of Jeff Schwab >> When I see this silliness again and again, it really breaks >> my heart > > If you allow your heart to be broken by others' opinions, you're setting > yourself up for a lot of disappointment IMHO.
It's not so much their opinions, as the fact that their opinions strongly influence their work. But you're probably right, anyway. > I personally used C++ for about 90% of my code for 10 years. During that > time, I was chugging the C++ Kool-Aid so hard I almost peed myself.> I still > think that C++ is a beautiful language, but I have also come to think that > starting a program with C++ is a premature optimization. I'm not much of a Kool Aid drinker. :) I just tend to find, when I develop anything non-trivial in a language other than C++, that I wish I had used C++, because it would have allowed me to enforce design semantics more efficiently. Optimization has nothing to do with it; I'm a firm believer in profiling before you optimize. > I think that very few Python programmers today started with Python. Most of > them came to Python for a reason. For several reasons, even! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
