On 08/02/2010 03:42 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I can't understand why any serious programmer mentions C++. As soon as I > read it, I have to rush either to the kitchen to find a bowl to throw up > in, or head for the toilet so I can talk to the great white telephone.
Sometimes, C++ is just the right tool for the job, despite all its warts. For example, programming GTK apps with GTKmm in C++ is way more pleasant than using C (but nowhere as pleasant as Python). C++'s object semantics (guaranteed destruction, scoping, etc) can sometimes work very well when you need the speed of a compiled language, but don't want to be quite as low-level as C. In this case, C++ is certainly not a better tool for the job than C. But plenty of serious programmers know how to leverage C++ and do so quite successfully. Just because C++ makes you ill in no way proves that C++ is unfit for certain purposes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
