Is python really slow?

[Andrew McNamara]

>That's quite right. I didn't mean to give the impression that C is a
>good language to cut one's teeth on. Far from it. However, it is a
>small language, and therefore easy to learn. That doesn't mean that
>it's easy to write good programs in it. C goes out of its way to give
>the programmer all the power required to shoot himself* in the foot.
>It assumes the programmer knows exactly what he is doing -- a bad
>assumption most of the time ;-)

I didn't explain myself very well - the point I meant to make is that
you don't really know C until you've spent a decade investigating core
dumps (and not even then in some prominent cases)... 8-) 8-)

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