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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 08:51:57 -0400 Organization: None Lines: 31 Message-ID: <uugv1d$36oe5$5@dont-email.me> References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utd86u$1ipcj$1@solani.org> <utfo33$1o6mu$3@dont-email.me> <l61vaiFn16lU2@mid.individual.net> <utgikt$21nsq$1@dont-email.me> <l646ogF2m1hU4@mid.individual.net> <utjv9u$2u8be$1@dont-email.me> <utleqa$3993q$2@dont-email.me> <utmic2$3k6u5$10@dont-email.me> <utnmea$3tet3$4@dont-email.me> <utpaea$cntv$3@dont-email.me> <uuge9n$32hhs$16@dont-email.me> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="88e26563ce9d41076278c0a45fe2b11e"; logging-data="3367365"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KdPG/WmaLqRB3eyoklPnU" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CujpgEJtIk+eDLT9rRBKieMmD50= X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA Bytes: 2490 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.... -- A gift of a flower will soon be made to you.