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On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> More to the point no language matches perfectly=C2=B9 everything that a l=
earner needs to learn.
> Can you write a kernel module in python? (Or Haskell?)
> Can you see details of machine state and transitions in python?
> Can you client-script a browser in python?
> C is the best fit for the first
> Assembly for the second
> Javascript for the third.

And if I want to build a web site, I won't write assembly code using
Python idioms. I will use Python. Why fight against a language?

ChrisA