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Re: Gmail eats Python

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Date 2015-07-29 10:53 -0400
Subject Re: Gmail eats Python
From Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1071.1438181595.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015, at 07:48, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> At first, there was only the machine language. Assembly languages
>> introduced "mnemonics" for the weaklings who couldn't remember the
>> opcodes by heart.
>
> To be fair, x86 is also a particularly terrible example of a machine
> language, from the perspective of someone imagining being expected to
> memorize it. Compare it with PDP-11, which had eight registers and eight
> addressing modes and a whole lot less to memorize (since each of these
> appears in every instruction as a single octal digit).


6809 was the best machine language.

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Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-25 20:47 +0300
  Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-25 20:52 +0300
    Re: Gmail eats Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-25 20:05 +0200
      Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 08:26 +0300
  Re: Gmail eats Python Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2015-07-25 18:44 +0000
  Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-25 22:42 +0300
    Re: Gmail eats Python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-26 10:52 +1000
    Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 10:58 +1000
    Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 08:01 +0300
      Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 22:28 -0700
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          Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 23:15 -0700
            Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 16:25 +1000
              Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 09:55 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 01:20 -0700
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 11:35 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 01:50 -0700
                Re: Gmail eats Python alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-07-26 09:21 +0000
                Re: Gmail eats Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-26 12:27 +0100
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 12:51 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 20:03 +1000
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 13:31 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 14:30 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-26 14:48 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python random832@fastmail.us - 2015-07-29 10:51 -0400
                Re: Gmail eats Python Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 10:53 -0400
                Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 13:43 +0300
                Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 06:16 -0700
                Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 20:35 -0700
                Re: Gmail eats Python Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-29 18:32 +0200
              Re: Gmail eats Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-26 15:42 +0000
            Re: Gmail eats Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-26 12:25 +0100
        Re: Gmail eats Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-26 15:47 +0000
          Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 08:59 -0700
            Re: Gmail eats Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-26 18:21 +0100
            Re: Gmail eats Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-27 03:40 +1000
              Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 14:34 -0700
              Re: Gmail eats Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 11:47 +1000
            Re: Gmail eats Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-26 19:45 +0000
              Re: Gmail eats Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 14:54 -0700
  Re: Gmail eats Python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-26 14:49 +1000
    Re: Gmail eats Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-26 08:37 +0300

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