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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:20:14 +1100
Subject: Re: Python is readable
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Kiuhnm
<kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it@mail.python.org> wrote:
> Could you please explain to me in which way
> =A0 =A0mov eax, 3
> should be less readable than
> =A0 =A0for i in x: print(i)
> ?

They are equally readable. The first one sets EAX to 3; the second
displays all elements of x on the console. Assembly is readable on a
very low level, but it's by nature verbose at a high level, and thus
less readable (you can't eyeball a function and know exactly what it
does, especially if that function spans more than a screenful of
code).

ChrisA