It could mean that you need more C++ to do stuff (or less Python code to do stuff, whatever your like). What I'm saying is that "amount of code" is not a valid

It could mean that you need more C++ to do stuff (or less Python code to do stuff, whatever your like). What I'm saying is that "amount of code" is not a valid magnitude when comparing different languages. In my experience converting some unmaintained Perl tools to Python, the Python version was almost as long as the Perl one, but it included more functionality, comments and error handling (I'm not criticising Perl here but the unmaintained code that I had to convert).