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Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python)

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Date 2013-11-11 20:55 +1100
Subject Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python)
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2365.1384163739.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:28 PM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> * Some languages are just fundamentally bad.
>
> The flexible string representation is a perfect exemple.

Wow. A new low for you, jmf... comparing PEP 393 to Ook?!?

> In fact, with such a mechanism, it is even impossible to write an editor.

And somehow a performance tradeoff makes Python no longer Turing complete.

ChrisA

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Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 09:58 +1100
  Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-11 01:28 -0800
    Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-11 20:55 +1100
    Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-11 14:40 +0000
    Re: Languages for different purposes (was Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-11-11 09:32 -0800

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