[Python-ideas] Documenting Python warts (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Wed Jan 2 12:35:45 CET 2013
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:59:39AM -0800, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
What you seem to be advocating is that all languages be nothing more than syntactic sugar for the same underlying model.
Yes, von Neumann architecture.
In that case, what advantage is there in having any language other than some baseline accepted one, like C?
So now we know why C is still the most popular language.
Other languages have their advantages, though. Their syntactic sugar is sweeter or have different tastes.
Oleg.
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