C++ is not so bad

For as much shit as I like to talk about C++, I sure can get a lot done quite efficiently in it.

I read an interview with Bjarne a while back and he said C++’s most important feature was destructors. After thinking about it, yeah, they are pretty awesome and I’ve been using the with statement for the same tightly scoped data lifetime in Python.

Using Pylons

Just for giggles, this new web app I’m working on is in Pylons. So much of it is dependent on configuration (the paster creation script installs all kinds of code all over the project directory). I think I’m impatient enough at this point of my life that I actually prefer the shrink-wrapped bumper lanes of Django to this approach.