On Thu, 5 May 2011 00:20:34 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: : Sometimes, to explain Python, you need to dig down to the underlying : hardware - even deeper than C, if you like.
Sometimes you may need to narrow down the scope and explain a particular implementation of python with its hardware, OS, and interpreter. However, explaining just python, you do not know what the underlying hardware/OS/interpreter is, and digging down into it is not possible. : 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. Sure, but every language assumes a certain level of abstraction, and when the abstraction breaks the language fails to be unambiguous and/or portable. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
