Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 28/08/2024 00:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:44:40 +0200, David Brown wrote:
 

Python does not support any significant degree of low-level programming.
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A key example of low-level programming is control of hardware, which on
most systems means accessing memory-mapped registers at specific
addresses, reading and writing in specific orders.  Python has no means
to do any of that - C and C++ both provide this ability.

 I’ve got news for you: this kind of thing is perfectly doable in Python
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html>.

It's Python calling a special module to do the dirty work. That's not far removed from Python just invoking an external C program to do the job.
By contrast, my scripting language can directly do the low level stuff. If there is a byte value at a certain address, it can access it like this:
  p:=makeref(0x40'0000, byte)
  println p^