Just some anecdotal confirmation: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ryan Ginstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Yes, I came to the same conclusion and now start all projects in Python, then add C/C++ extensions for optimization. > I think that very few Python programmers today started with Python. Most of > them came to Python for a reason. Exactly right in my case. In fact this observation is directly related to the one your the previous paragraph. Python is a good language in which to start a progrom. -- -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
