In article <837db430709021625ye53068fo357f775324f465dc@mail.gmail.com>,
"Hugh Perkins"
However, using Swig etc to join Python to C++ takes a significant amount of time, and one needs project members now to learn two languages.
That's a non-issue in my context. The first real problem is wasting time generating glue code. The second problem is interrupting the current work to correct the bindings, or the underlying code itself. The ability to correct, inspect and debug all the code at runtime without ever stopping almost outweighs the language capabilities or syntax. If elegance weren't an issue ;), I would solely use lisp, or maybe some scheme, or maybe even CINT.
Then I discovered a different language (not Haskell) that combined the ease of Python with the speed of C++. It's really a big advantage.
Is that something originally coming from digital mars? The list of languages that argue to have that target performance is quite long... ;)