Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But a programming language (or UI) is not just a collection of syntax > and and interfaces - it's an implementation. You need to keep in mind > that "practicality beats purity".
An awful lot of the time in this newsgroup, "practicality beats purity" translates as "the programmer can just be a lazy slob". > If following POLA makes the implementation an order of magnitude > slower or larger, then you don't follow POLA - at least until you > can do it without that cost. If following POLA costs that much, at least in the kinds of examples we talk about all the time here, something is probably wrong with the implementation (or the design) to begin with. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
