2009/2/16 <rushen...@gmail.com>: > I want to learn python + c++ or java because of the desire of having > python's felxibility and easiness and c++ or java's stability and > speed and power together.
Yes, that's what I mean by different tradeoffs. Python is much easier to program in than C++ or Java (in my experience, at least), but C++ and Java scale better and at least have the potential to be faster. I'm not convinced that library support is significantly better for C++ or Java -- Python's libraries seem pretty rich to me. And that extra speed might not be needed as often as you think. My postgrad dissertation involved heavy number-crunching on large data sets, and in my proposal I said I'd switch from Python to C++ when Python got too slow. In fact, Python never did get too slow (I didn't even have to switch to numpy), and plugging together ad-hoc modules, defined in an XML script, was a dream in Python when I'd probably still be coding it today in C++. Horses for courses. It's almost always wrong to say that language A is better than language B; the most you can say is that language A is better than language B for some specific task. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
