Thread: Language of choice after C++

Provided you ignore mundane concerns like performance. I wouldn't want a frequently called yet complex system call to be implemented in Python, thank you.

With processors today. performence issues aren't what they once were. And if its really that critical, then code the necessary part in C/C++ or JAVA and call it as a library from python.

It also lacks a vast collection of libraries like Perl (and CPAN). Of course, I could be wrong on that last point as I don't keep fully up to date on such things.

dead wrong sweetie . and then some more just google it. And again. if you can't find the module, since you already have a base in programming just code it in C/C++ or java. There are modules for that as well. .

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by the way the majority of languages are an abstraction on other languages. Thats what makes them better. C a better Asm if you will, C++ a better C, Java a better C++. Python a better language period[/fanning. fanning. fanning. ]

>performence issues aren't what they once were.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Even though computers are getting faster, the amount of data that they have to work with grows by a considerably larger amount. Performance issues are arguably more important now than they once were.

I stand by what i said about extending your python program with C/C++. and until we reach tachyon light speeds get a better algorithm

Originally Posted by Prelude

>performence issues aren't what they once were.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Even though computers are getting faster, the amount of data that they have to work with grows by a considerably larger amount. Performance issues are arguably more important now than they once were.

Most of the time, there's absolutley no need to use a lower-level language like C to complete a task, and this is getting more and more true. In the old days, everything was written using assembler.

Could someone compare Python and Java? Is Python object-oriented?