Python Worst Practices

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On 2015-03-02 01:37, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:43:50 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following:
>
>>losing performance. Conversely, I'm sure Python could also have been
>>implemented on top of BASIC if someone felt like it, though what the
>>advantages might be I have no idea. But performance is not (or should
>
> 	You'd be able to run it on a TI99/4 (in which the BASIC interpreter,
> itself, was run on an interpreter... nothing like taking the first "16-bit"
> home computer and shackling it with an interpreted language that was run on
> an interpreted language)
>
The "16-bit" CPU had a 16-bit address bus (64K address space). If you
were going to switch from an 8-bit processor to a 16-bit processor, one
of the pluses you'd be looking for would the ability to directly
address more than 64K.