On 25/11/2015 22:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC <b...@freeuk.com>:
I'm interested in language design because that's what I've done on and
off for over 30 years. And I'm discussing some design decisions in
Python.
That *is* a fun ambition, useful or not.
(At the moment, it's mostly fun. But in the past I actually needed the
languages to do my job (designing microprocessor hardware). The
scripting languages came a bit later, to go with my 3D graphics
applications.)
You seem to have been surprised with some advanced concepts and idioms
in this discussion. Really, apart from its indentation syntax, Python
offers no unique or even rare software engineering concepts (Python's
emphasis duck-typing comes close to being distinctive). You'll find
equivalents in quite many languages, and in active, money-making uses.
Maybe you're too familiar with it. But the idea of /executing/ the
function and other definitions in a file, instead of they just being
there, is novel.
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