From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:31:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 8/15/2025 10:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:48:14 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In general I like the idea of writing code in a way that does not   
   >>> require the reader to have memorized ten thousand things from the   
   >>> language spec.   
   >>   
   >> What language spec has room for ten thousand things in it, anyway?   
   >   
   >> ... oh, Java.   
   >   
   > Language specs for modern languages tend to be pretty big.   
      
   Python is as “modern” as they come, and its core language spec is only a   
   fraction the size of any of those -- even including builtin functions and   
   types, it would be no more than a couple hundred pages.   
      
   And remember, it manages to include multiple inheritance, operator   
   overloading, metaclasses, functions and classes as first-class objects   
   with lexical binding (i.e. no need for generics), async/await, arbitrary-   
   precision integers, Unicode strings as distinct from bytes objects, and   
   descriptors.   
      
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