Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined?

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined?
Date	2014-01-12 18:53 +0000
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On 2014-01-11, pintreo mardi <bigearl497@outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi, I've just begun to learn programming, I have an open question for
> the group: Is the Python language an all in one computer language
> which could replace C, C++, Java etc..

No.  Python can not replace C in a number of application areas:

 * Bare-metal applications without an OS.

 * Low-resource applications with limited memory (like a few KB).

 * Device driver and kernel modules for OSes like Linux, Unix, (and,
   AFAIK, Windows).

 * Computationally intensive applications where there isn't a library
   available written C or FORTRAN to do the heavy lifting.

For general application programming on a server or PC, then Python can
replace many/most uses of C/C++/Java.

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Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? pintreo mardi <bigearl497@outlook.com> - 2014-01-11 00:07 -0800
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 19:21 +1100
    Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? pintreo mardi <bigearl497@outlook.com> - 2014-01-11 02:10 -0800
      Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-11 10:51 +0000
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-11 10:47 +0000
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 10:45 -0500
    Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2014-01-12 07:08 +0200
      Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 16:58 +1100
        Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2014-01-12 14:36 +0000
          Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-13 01:44 +1100
  Re:Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-11 19:37 -0500
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? matej@ceplovi.cz (Matěj Cepl) - 2014-01-12 02:36 +0100
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 18:43 -0800
  Re: Open Question - I'm a complete novice in programming so please bear with me...Is python equivalent to C, C++ and java combined? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-12 18:53 +0000

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