Ryan Ginstrom wrote: >> On Behalf Of Nicola Musatti >> Newbies learn, and the fundamental C++ lessons are usually >> learnt quite easily. Unless we're talking about idiots, that >> is, but in this case at least C++ is likely to make their >> deficiencies evident sooner than most other programming >> languages. So, yes, your big company is likely to be safer >> with newbie C++ programmers than with Python newbie programmers. > > The danger of memory leaks alone makes C++ a decidedly newbie-unfriendly > language. Java I might go along with, but C++? > > Regards, > Ryan Ginstrom > (who learned C++ before Python and has grappled with his share of memory > bugs) > I think you can safely assume that an <irony></irony> tag pair should have surrounded Nicola's assertion.
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