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Re: Python wart

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Date 2013-11-02 12:18 +1100
Subject Re: Python wart
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1945.1383355111.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, I liked all the C++ additions a lot. I really liked the STL. But I don't know what Bjarne was thinking with the streams.

It does look cool on paper. You can "see" the flow of data.
Everything's type-safe - unlike C's scanf family (though, again,
sscanf in a high level language can get around that problem). The only
problem is, it doesn't actually help much in code. It's snazzy but not
all that useful.

ChrisA

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Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 12:54 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 00:11 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:59 +1100
    Re: Python wart Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:08 +0000
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 20:17 +1100
    Re: Python wart Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-01 09:32 +0000
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 20:42 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 14:47 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 10:13 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:11 -0700
    Re: Python wart Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 12:18 +1100
  Re: Python wart Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 18:26 -0700

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