[Python-3000] Python/C++ question

Talin talin at acm.org
Sun Aug 13 13:07:44 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> For the majority of Python developers it's probably the other way
> around. It's been 15 years since I wrote C++, and unlike C, that
> language has changed a lot since then...
> 
> It would be a complete rewrite; I prefer doing a gradual
> transmogrification of the current codebase into Py3k rather than
> starting from scratch (read Joel Spolsky on why).

BTW, Should this be added to PEP 3099?

(Although I do think that a gradual transition is certainly possible, I 
am not going to push for it.)

-- Talin


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