Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Marshall Spight]

"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim.durchholz at web.de> wrote in message news:bnejhq$hlv$1 at news.oberberg.net...
> the
> absence of a good way to catch exceptions in C++ constructors (and,
> hence, that an exception thrown somewhere within a C++ constructor will
> almost inevitably leak memory)

Java nails this one.


> is worse than Java's ubiquitous need for
> downcasts.
> But I also consider the unavailability of type inference in Java a
> "serious problem".

Me, too, sigh.


> Java is probably the inevitable next step in my career. Well,
> there are worse languages, that's what I always tell myself (and it
> almost suffices to calm me down...)

I got assigned to a Java project in 1996 and went kicking and
screaming. Within 3 months, I thought it was great. YMMV.


Marshall