Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'source.': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '>on': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'reason.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; '+0000': 0.22; 'aug': 0.22; 'python?': 0.22; 'platform,': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'says': 0.33; 'c++': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'unable': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; "you're": 0.61; 'name': 0.63; 'edwards': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Python vs C++ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:12:48 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-216-17.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408677175 news.xs4all.nl 2872 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76770 On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:59:05 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards declaimed the following: >On 2014-08-21, David Palao wrote: > >> Why to use C++ instead of python? > > 1) C++ is the only language available for your platform, and for some > reason you are unable to build Python from source. > > 2) You need money, and the only person willing to pay you says use > C++ and won't listen to reason. > > 3) You're a masochist. > >That's all I can think of... 4) Your last name is Stroustup -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/