"Randall Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Also, a lot of C++'s flaws flow from the fact that it is old and grew > in lots of increments.
That was a deliberate decision on the part of C++'s designers!-) I guess the same is true of Python in some respects: it's still incrementally changing (more than C++, I guess), and isn't all that much younger than C++ (around 15 and 23 years old respectively). > In my experience the overhead of explicitly deleting objects in C/C++ > is not the big burden that some argue here is the biggest reason to use > Python instead of C++. Should we be entirely surprised that from somebody from a engineering / numerical analysis background has that experience? Fortran 77 didn't even *have* a standard way to do dynamic memory allocation, did it? I certainly do think garbage collection is useful in that context, though... John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
