On Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:24:18 PM UTC+5:30, David Palao wrote: > Hello, > I consider myself a python programmer, although C++ was one of the > first languages I learned (not really deeply and long time ago).
> Now I decided to retake C++, to broaden my view of the business. > However, as I progress in learning C++, I cannot take out of my head > one question > Why to use C++ instead of python? > It is not ranting against C++. I was/am looking for small-medium > projects to exercise my C++ skills. But I'm interested in a "genuine" > C++ project: some task where C++ is really THE language (and where > python is actually a bad ab initio choice). > The usual argument in favour of C++ (when comparing to python) is > performance. But I'm convinced that, in general, the right approach is > "python-profiling-(extension/numpy/Cython/...)". At least for a python > programmer. I might be wrong, though. > This is, perhaps, a bit off-topic, but I really want to know the > thoughts of experienced python programmers on it. Not C++ but (mostly) C: http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html And someone opposed to that view: http://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.in/2013/01/why-i-grown-to-loathe-c.html I said something about it here: http://blog.languager.org/2013/02/c-in-education-and-software-engineering.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
