Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python 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: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <18b67e59-39d1-41e2-8977-b1c449b132e7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1389552828 27514 64.122.56.22 (12 Jan 2014 18:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:53:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63796 On 2014-01-11, pintreo mardi 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Look into my eyes and at try to forget that you have gmail.com a Macy's charge card!