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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:15:36 +0100
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 25/06/2024 16:12, David Brown wrote:
....
>> I /do/ use Python.  I use it when it is an appropriate language to use,
>>  which is very different circumstances from when I use C (or
>> C++). Different tools for different tasks.
>
> And yet neither of you are interested in answering my question, which was
> why its simplistic bytecode compiler is acceptable in this scenario, but
> would be considered useless if applied to C code.

You throw out a lot of these sorts of question, by which I mean
questions that you either /do/ know the answers to or which you /should/
know the answers to.

If a software engineering student asked me this sort of "challenge"
question it would immediately become homework: come up with at least two
scenarios in which a simplistic C bytecode compiler would be an
unacceptable tool to use, and two in which Python with a trivial
bytecode compiler would be an acceptable tool to use.  In each case
explain why.  Anyone who could not would get marked down on the course.

-- 
Ben.