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Re: Python Worst Practices

Date 2015-03-02 01:59 +0000
From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Subject Re: 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@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.

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Re: Python Worst Practices Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-28 15:33 +0000
  Re: Python Worst Practices BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-02-28 17:55 +0000
    Re: Python Worst Practices Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-28 18:38 +0000
    Re: Python Worst Practices Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-01 13:08 +1100
      Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 13:43 +1100
      Re: Python Worst Practices BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-01 12:47 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-03-01 20:37 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 01:59 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-01 23:49 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 12:38 +0000
      Re: Python Worst Practices Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 08:12 -0500
      Re: Python Worst Practices Jonas Wielicki <jonas@wielicki.name> - 2015-03-06 07:58 +0100
      Re: Python Worst Practices Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-06 21:09 +1100
        Re: Python Worst Practices Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-07 16:11 +0100

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