Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

[Alfredo Valles <alfredo@bioinfo.cu>]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > I think we're stuck with C and C++, so why not try to use them as well
> > as possible, and choose the one you really need depending on what you
> > want to do...
>
> Python!!!!!!!!!!  Object oriented, and methods that need speed are
> wrapped around C.


And very very slow too, like any other script language.


I like python, there are several techniques to accelerate python (like weave 
and psyco) but for a good speed C is the best.