Why is Windows so crappy? Read the explanation straight from the head of development since 1992. Not actually a .NET blog (at least they try to make the brainwash not so evident)
an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler. It accepts pure but implicitly statically typed Python programs and generates optimized C++ code. (Google sponsoring)
The GNU C compiler apparently still permits this, and the VC++ 2005 compiler permits it too, though it issues a Level-4 warning if it’s C code, and a Level-2 warning if it’s C++ code.