On 2013-05-13, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@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). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The entire CHINESE at WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all gmail.com share ONE personality -- and have since BIRTH!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list