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 Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Lawrence D’Oliveiro: 

 > On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:03:40 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > 
 > > With time and maturity I have come to the realisation that there is
 > > *always* an underlying machine and an underlying language
 > > implementation ...
 > 
 > With popular languages, there are typically multiple implementations, 
 > often built on very different implementation concepts.

And very few of them have no stack, or no heap, or are implemented on
drum-memory computers, or use an underlying integer representation that is
other than twos’ complement.

 > This is the case with Python, just for example.

-- 
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How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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