What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Hans Georg Schaathun hg at schaathun.net
Wed May 4 13:09:56 EDT 2011


On Thu, 5 May 2011 00:20:34 +1000, Chris Angelico
  <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
:  Sometimes, to explain Python, you need to dig down to the underlying
:  hardware - even deeper than C, if you like.

Sometimes you may need to narrow down the scope and explain a particular
implementation of python with its hardware, OS, and interpreter.
However, explaining just python, you do not know what the underlying
hardware/OS/interpreter is, and digging down into it is not possible.

:                                              And that's always going to
:  be the way, because abstractions leak from time to time. Or I should
:  say, they occasionally have confidential briefings with the press.
:  Abstracting everything perfectly is neither possible nor desirable.

Sure, but every language assumes a certain level of abstraction, and
when the abstraction breaks the language fails to be unambiguous and/or
portable.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg



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