On 2011-01-16, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > On 1/15/2011 10:48 PM, Aman wrote: >> @nagle Means you are suggesting me not to proceed with Python because I've >> had experience with C++? > > No, Python is quite useful, but on the slow side. If you're I/O > bound, not time critical, or otherwise not performance constrained, > it's quite useful. The language is really quite good, but there's > some excessive dynamism which has caused every attempt at an optimizing > implementation to fail.
Those who are concerned about performance should check out Go. Garbage collection, duck typing, and compiles to a native binary. It creates a great middle ground between C++ and Python. Any C and/or Python programmer will feel right at home with the language. It is still a young language; but, I have been using it for some useful things. http://golang.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
