Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <i3982t$79s$2 at reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:

> I've always thought Ada was a pretty nice embedded/systems languages,
> but some of the initial implementations were indede horrible.

Well, there’s GNAT, the GNU Ada implementation. Seems pretty robust and 
complete, while offering backward compatibility with some of those “initial 
implementations”, presumably because people have so much code already 
written for them.

Disclaimer: the most complicated Ada program I’ve ever written is this 
<http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Concurrent_Quicksort>. Or maybe this 
<http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Parallel_Sieve_of_Eratosthenes>. :)