"Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I'm sorry to say but in my experience, I don't see Python, Ruby, C# | > being higher level than C++. The thing that distinguishes Aldor | > from C++ is dependent types. Apart from that, I don't see much difference | > that would make me qualify Aldor as higher level than C++. | > | > Notice that I'm specifically talking of C++, not an imaginary C/C++. | | Well, at least Python and Ruby are much higher level than C++ (there | are lists, dictionaries, garbage collector, no pointers, it's dynamic, | etc.). And also many times slower.
I don't know which C++ you're talking about, but the one that I use on daily basis and work on has lists (std::list), dictionaries (std::map, std::multimap, etc.), has many garbage collectors as libraries with a popular one freely available from Hans Boehm's web site -- industrial strengh. You don't have to use pointers in C++ if you don't need to. Many languages claim they don't have pointers, but represent everything as pointers. You can have everything dynamic in C++ if that really is hat you want. And, by the way it has a library for easly interfacing with Python -- check out Boost.Python from Boost. Let's our ignorance not interfer with reality. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
