On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: > It is contorted and implementation-level because it is one level below > the abstraction assumed by the language. It only works by assuming > knowledge of C, which is language which has proved unsuitable for > complex and abstract data modelling. Digging down into C should be > unnecessary to explain Python.
Sometimes, to explain Python, you need to dig down to the underlying hardware - even deeper than C, if you like. And that's always going to be the way, because abstractions leak from time to time. Or I should say, they occasionally have confidential briefings with the press. Abstracting everything perfectly is neither possible nor desirable. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
