From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 6 20:49:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6CA37B419 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82352 invoked by uid 100); 7 Mar 2002 04:49:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15494.61799.281075.606906@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:49:43 -0600 To: Tony Finch Cc: Gautham Ganapathy , "FreeBSD Chat @ FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <20020307041010.A29816@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <00d901c1c58b$77e13b20$de56579d@india.ti.com> <20020307041010.A29816@chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch types: > "Gautham Ganapathy" wrote: > > Joe Halpin wrote: > > > > > > For example, assembly language doesn't do anything Python can't, but > > > Python does more (at least, per statement) than assembly language. > > > > Clearly, you do not play video games :-) > > Clearly you do not realise that games haven't been written in assembler > for years. Yeah. Games like SolarWolf in the ports tree come to mind. It's 100% python. My favorite window manager is also written in Python, including the Xlib implementation. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message