It certainly has for me. Here is me translating as literally as I could a bit of nontrivial code (which I originally learned from R's C code): http://inverset

It certainly has for me. Here is me translating as literally as I could a bit of nontrivial code (which I originally learned from R's C code): http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/default/jmedcouple.c++ http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/default/jmedcoup... http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/default/medcouple.py http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/default/medcoupl... I'm really happy how almost every Python statement has a nearly equivalent C++ statement. The only one I had trouble with was list comprehensions, but they can be very nearly translated with C++ stdlib algorithms and a few lambdas (kind of looks more like map and filter than a list comprehension, though). The best part is that the C++ code runs as fast and sometimes faster than the original C code I grabbed this from! (The translation path was C -> Python -> C++.)