Originally Posted by
Sebastiani
Patently untrue. I've written many parsers and other various string-processing routines in C++ without any headaches whatsoever. Not only can it be just as easy as with an interpreted language, it can be much more so (thanks to operator-overloading, among other things), and also much more powerful and flexible (thanks to templates, your code works with arbitrary types (char, float, a custom type, etc), and parses not just "flat" char* strings, but any kind of object that can be iterated (lists, vectors, files)). Try getting *that* to work with perl or python!