Python design philosophy

[Eric Lee Green]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> In article <395B6960.26AB52C1 at estinc.com>, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> 
> >> >Mostly because Python doesn't "really" have classes. What Python
> >> >"really" has are hash tables whose entries are objects (either methods
> >> >or other data objects), and some syntactic sugar [...]
> >>
> >> By this logic, all C++ has is pointers and some syntactic sugar.
> >
> >Exactly :-).
> >
> >C++ is syntactic sugar for "C". As should be obvious from the fact that most
> >early C++ compilers generated "C" as their output :-).
> 
> And C is just semantic sugar for assembly...

You mean you've never noticed the resemblence between "C" and PDP-11 assembly
language? :-).

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