Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Why Python is like C++ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:09:26 +1300 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 52NeR6ADlmFg49Et2o/PcwIhSQn0yA3OavMgRlBIgmHwIECouS Cancel-Lock: sha1:+GVJ5XKf+jSjIaSCvBd+Trpscgo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62475 Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 20/12/2013 14:19, Roy Smith wrote: > >> http://xkcd.com/1306/ >> > > I believe that to be a very superficial like. They're unlike in that > once C++ people have compiled their code they can head down to the pub, > but Python people have to stay at work testing because the compiler > hasn't caught all potential errors. But it takes so much longer for the C++ people to write their program in the first place, that the Python people often get to the pub first anyway. And even if they don't get to the pub at all, they enjoy what they're doing so much that they don't care. -- Greg