Is python really slow?

[Andrew McNamara]

>By the way, C is a "small" language and not hard to learn. It might be
>hard to learn to program *well* in it, but that's another story. :-)

Well, not really - this is almost the central issue: C code goes wrong in
subtle ways (eg, double-free() of a pointer, over-indexing an array),
Python doesn't (usually). When it goes wrong, Python encourages interactive
exploration of your code, whereas C, you have go into the time consuming
"edit-compile-debug-iterate" phase.

If you're new to programming, a language like Python would seem to be the
right place to start.

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/