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

[Thomas Heller]

"dman" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message news:mailman.1012192129.26553.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:59:00AM +0000, one2001boy wrote:
>
> | C++ is for large-scale projects;
>
> No way :-).  Python is better for that!
>
> I'd like to see a statically-typed, compiled-to-native,
> raw-pointers-included, python-like language.  The purpose is to
> replace C in augmenting python for the low-level stuff.  Then instead
> of Python+C we'd have Python+<this_new_thing> for the ideal
> environment :-).  The reason for replacing C is because python is so
> cool we'd all want to use a pythonic language for the low-level stuff
> too.

What would you think about python plus raw pointers included?
The ability to create/manipulate C-type structures in Python?

This is a toy project of mine, it would at least allow to wrap
C interfaces in python, without a compiler.

Thomas