python challenges

[Ben Finney]

David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> writes:

> Python is, of course, a language based on a lower level to allow
> higher level interactivity and ease of use. So, to define the
> challenges of python, are to define the challenges of what it wraps
> around.

That seems like a framing of the issue designed to get a particular kind
of answer. Why frame it that way?

Why is the above forumlation better than, for example:

    Python is, of course, a language based on the English language. So,
    to define the challenges of Python is to define the challenges of
    the English lexis and grammar.

For one thing, I don't agree that Python is “a language based on a lower
level”. A lower level of what? Python doesn't have any particular “lower
level”. Its *implementations* do – each implementation wraps around
different lower levels – but you're talking about the language, aren't
you?

> Moving from lower level to the higher level of python, what needs to
> take place at each level of the hierarchy it's placed on in order for
> it to become 'perfect'?

Perhaps you'd like to present what you think the answer to this question
is, and we can discuss that.

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Ben Finney