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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:34:56
Message-Id: 200712162325.37859.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules] by Randy Barlow
1 On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > > one reason pro phyton and contra c and c++ has always been: segfaults.
4 > >
5 > > And with c++ comes another one: abi changes.
6 > >
7 > > Just think about this horror: gcc/libstdc++ update and your package
8 > > manager stops working....
9 >
10 > Well segfaults generally indicate bugs in your code - so hopefully you
11 > would be a good coder and ensure that you manage memory correctly. Abi
12 > changes suck big time, I agree on that point, and also the updates -
13 > hadn't thought of that one :)
14 >
15
16 sometimes a lib update is the one factor that turns a simply 'thinko' in a
17 full grown segfault ;)
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