Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Aahz]

In article <7xeieevrze.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>I'm not sure what the hiring issue is.  I think anyone skilled in C++ or
>Java can pick up Ada pretty easily.  It's mostly a subset of C++ with
>different surface syntax.

Heck, I learned Ada as a sixteen-year-old knowing only BASIC and Pascal.
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