Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams

From	Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams
Date	2013-05-16 14:23 +0000
Organization	Norwich University
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On 2013-05-16, F?bio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I want to bake bread I hope I don't have to till a garden,
>> plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, and grind the wheat. But
>> gardening is relevant to bread baking weather or not I do it.
>
> Then memory management t is relevant to every python program
> even though it's done by the interpreter?

Yes, I think so. If you didn't understand how Python managed
memory, you couldn't write it effectively. You would end up
making unecessary copies, and other pathological programming
practices.

> And in Java we have factories, builders and builderfactories.
> What's so relevant about them? Java is high level, no?

When I tried to pin down what an irrelevant detail in a computer
program could be, I couldn't do it. I guess comment decorations,
maybe? But those would have no bearing on the level of problem
for which a programming language is most appropriate.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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[Off topic] Software epigrams Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-13 09:20 +0000
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams "marduk@python.net" <marduk@python.net> - 2013-05-13 10:56 -0400
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 03:47 +1000
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-13 13:02 -0500
    Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-13 18:42 +0000
      Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 21:49 +0100
        Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-15 17:24 +0000
          Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 18:49 +0100
            Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-15 18:27 +0000
              Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 01:21 +0100
                Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-16 14:23 +0000
                Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 00:37 +1000
                Re: Software epigrams rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-16 08:06 -0700
                Re: Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-17 01:19 +1000
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          Re: sendmail smtplib.SMTP('localhost') Where is the email? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 08:13 +1000
          Re: sendmail smtplib.SMTP('localhost') Where is the email? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-30 19:23 -0400
  Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 04:12 +1000
    Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2013-05-14 03:08 +0000
      Re: [Off topic] Software epigrams Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 13:28 +1000
      Re: Software epigrams rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 20:55 -0700

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