Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:30:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <20240815182717.189@kylheku.com> References: <20240408075547.000061e8@gmail.com> <20240412094809.811@kylheku.com> <87il0mm94y.fsf@tudado.org> <87il0lldf8.fsf@tudado.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:30:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="48294c20dad4b311beeb7b4ad6c2d0f4"; logging-data="1230652"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SVrTdPSUTJ9O/1qE2zI1OzbIOgDlP8Oo=" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pNCP2AxytunhYC9tI+x+U1857FI= Bytes: 2385 On 2024-08-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:48:36 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote: > >> The last I checked, the O'Reilly Python book is just absolutely >> *MASSIVE*. The language has a huge number of features now ... > > No, it hasn’t. The core language reference spec is only a small fraction > of, say, the Java language spec. > > It’s just that you can do so many things with Python. And that is down to > the huge variety of off-the-shelf addon libraries that build on that core > language spec. It has to be a strong, very solidly founded core in order > to be such a versatile basis for these addons, and it is. That's idiotic; you're saying that the standard library packages of Python are not part of Python, and do not contribute to its size. -- TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca