Python for philosophers

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-05-13, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Your premise that Python tries to be "economical" is incorrect. If
> anything, Python is the opposite: it is often profligate with resources 
> (memory mostly) in order to save the human programmer time and effort.

IOW, Python is designed to be economical, but the resource of concern
is not computer memory, it's the programmer's time/effort.  Computer
memory gets cheaper every year.  My time gets more valuable every year
(hopefully).

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