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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:51:57 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:39:21 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>> royalties:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:36:17 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Meh. I have never found another language with the power and
>>>> flexibility of C++. Not Java, not C#, and not Python.
>>>
>>> Python can do homoiconicity.
>> 
>> C++ can do template metaprogramming.
>
> Python doesn’t need two different languages for “compile-time” versus 
> “run-time” programming; it uses the same language for both.

I think that Alexander Stepanov would say..... <braaaaaaaaapppppp>

> Function definitions and class definitions are not declarations: they are 
> just forms of assignment statement.
>
> And then there are metaclasses ...

I wonder if the C++ metaclass proposal ever made it into C++. Will have to
check....

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