Underscore data hiding (was python development practices?)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Nov 1 02:55:15 EST 2001


>>> Skip Montanaro wrote
> scripting language for the Amoeba distributed operating system.  The fact
> that Python is "fast enough" for many things you might apply C++ to is in
> large part because:

Not forgetting the other point - it's usually very easy to optimise
your application by recoding the performance critical fragment in C.
Python's just so damn easy to extend...

Anthony




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