D H wrote: > That's why so many people have switched to Java or C# (or Python and > other langugages of course). You might talk to them about using Python, > since Python and C/C++ fit together very nicely (with tools like BOOST, > SWIG, Pyrex,...). But me personally I like to avoid C++ altogether when > possible, and use Java or C# instead, both of which also can be combined > with python or python-like languages such as jython, groovy, or boo.
But accessing Java packages from jython does not reduce effecively the underlying pain. Personally I favour for programming in C++ over Java, because I feel at least the mind of an evil genius ( C++ template programming is Turing complete, operator overloading enables objects having a builtin groove ) where Java is plain mediocrity. In spirit it is a kind of Anti-Python. I recommend studying C++ idioms carefully. http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/C++Idioms/EuroPLoP98.html If Georges starts on greenfields he may have a look at Qt and it's object library which is not only concerned with widgets. http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/ BOOST is more high brow and I guess that it compiles slow because it uses templates extensively. Template metaprogramming as a compile time language was a funny discovery. Here is some prove of it's capabilities: http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/papers/2003/turing.pdf Regards, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
