Python is just as good as C++ for real apps

[Christian Graus]

On 22 Jan 2002 15:24:37 -0500, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com>
wrote:

>"Kevin Altis" <altis at semi-retired.com> writes:
>
>> Python is just as good as C++ for real apps
>
>That doesn't even need to be said, does it?  Anybody who's written
>real apps in both already knows this.  I would say C++ is almost as
>good as Python for real apps, except where speed of development
>matters.  Python is free of most of C++'s major scaling limitations
>and hidden pitfalls.
>

This was the troll post then ?

FWIW I think that Python is probably as good as C# for real apps.  I'd
prefer a language that is not interpreted myself, although Python has
some nice features ( I use C++ and Python about 50/50 at work ).  

I write graphics code a lot in my spare time, and even if it's
possible to write filters that access the bits of a bitmap directly in
Python, you can't tell me it is as fast as C++ to do such things.

Oh, I mentioned C# because it has a runtime between the code and the
machine, I do not use, nor do I ever intend to use it.

Christian