I come not to bury C++, but to praise it...

[Oren Tirosh]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:35:16AM -0500, Jp Calderone wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:42:52AM -0500, Derek wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > I also use C++ and Python as my main languages and I agree with your
> > comments.  However, I don't agree that Python is inherently "safer"
> > than C++.  At best I see it as a tie.  For example, C++ let's you
> > corrupt memory among other "unsafe" things, most of which can be
> > avoided by using standard containers, smart pointers, etc.  Python
> > lets you do "unsafe" things such as passing an object to a function
> > when it makes no sense to do so, which can lead to nasty runtime
> > surprises.
> > 
> 
>   A traceback is *much* less nasty than memory corruption.  

A traceback is also much less nasty than deciphering a 1000-character 
long compiler error message reported in code that uses a heavily 
templated library.

   Oren