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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:38:44 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:36:35 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>> royalties:
>> 
>>> I came up with an interesting use for [metaclasses], to allow
>>> convenient definition of a hierarchy of exception classes representing
>>> return codes from a given API. More details in the “Uses For
>>> Metaclasses” notebook in this collection
>>> <https://gitlab.com/ldo/python_topics_notebooks/>.
>> 
>> Interesting. It is not clear to me why you need metaclasses to implement
>> the example, though.
>
> How would you do it at least as easily, without them?
>
> And how would you do that in C++?
>
>> On another note, C++20 introduces the concept of "concepts", which put
>> constraints on templates and their parameters.
>
> In Python, that would just be another instance of the same type-annotation 
> system it already has. Remember that Python does not need a “template 
> language” versus a “run-time language”.
>
>> These programming languages arms races are fun!
>
> C++ is already over 5× the complexity of Python, and looks like it is 
> growing even faster.
>
> In other words, it is C++ that is struggling to keep up, not Python.

Whatever, dude.  Keep checking boxes in the feechure matrix.

-- 
And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?