Mike Coleman wrote:
I mentioned this once on the git list and Linus' response was something like "C lets me see exactly what's going on". I'm not unsympathetic to this point of view--I'm really growing to loathe C++ partly because it *doesn't* let me see exactly what's going on--but I'm not convinced, either.
I think Python lets you see exactly what's going on too, at the level of abstraction you're working with. The problem with C++ is that it indiscriminately mixes up wildly different levels of abstraction, so that it's hard to look at a piece of code and decide whether it's doing something high-level or low-level. Python takes a uniformly high-level view of everything, which is fine for the vast majority of application programming, I think -- VCSes included. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
