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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by eru on Friday July 16, 2010 @10:20AM (#1521209)
I guess, if you set your mind to it, you could probably make Forth do a nice mixture of low and high-level stuff, too.

But why do people insist on being able to do low and high level stuff in the same language? What's wrong with, say, using Python for high level stuff, and calling into C for low level tasks? C+Python is probably more convenient than C++.

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Re:Zed Shaw on C++ by mathias_10gen on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:00PM (#1522551)
Actually Boost::Python makes python and c++ mix beautifully. I just started playing with it a few days ago and am seriously impressed. I'm planning on using it to write a WSGI gateway to put in front of my bottle.py apps.
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