[Python-Dev] And the winner is... (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 1 01:50:40 CEST 2009
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Mike Coleman wrote:
I mentioned this once on the git list and Linus' response was something like "C lets me see exactly what's going on". I'm not unsympathetic to this point of view--I'm really growing to loathe C++ partly because it doesn't let me see exactly what's going on--but I'm not convinced, either.
I think Python lets you see exactly what's going on too, at the level of abstraction you're working with.
The problem with C++ is that it indiscriminately mixes up wildly different levels of abstraction, so that it's hard to look at a piece of code and decide whether it's doing something high-level or low-level.
Python takes a uniformly high-level view of everything, which is fine for the vast majority of application programming, I think -- VCSes included.
-- Greg
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