On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:36:21 +0200 (CEST) Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why on earth use C++? Use a desent high-level non-crippled language like > lisp, python or ruby. I'm always curious about language advocacy posts like this. In this instance I'd be particularly interested to know if you have ever coded a large application (100,000 loc) in andy of these languages? If you have, I'd then be curious to know if you had take the given lisp/python/ruby functionality and ported it to C or C++ to compare the performance, memory footprint and robustness. If you haven't done this then I don't you're qualified to make the sort of suggestions that you made and even if you have and lisp/python/ruby does seem better (unlikely) then it still doesn't mean that the original poster would be better off with one of these languages. I should also point out that I really like Python and use it all the time for small scipts and tools but I would never dream of using it for anything large (>10,000 loc) or timing critical. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "He who writes the code gets to choose his license, and nobody else gets to complain" -- Linus Torvalds
