Re: python abstractions, The joy of FORTRAN

According to 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net>:

  Ya know ... most of Python IS 'C'-based libs.
  Never really looked into it, but the 'advanced'
  Python function may just be strtok() with a
  lot of handy fixes/cheats in disguise  :-)

  Oh, Python 'strings' are ULTIMATELY just
  a stretch of memory filled with various
  values. The "object" stuff, a carefully-
  crafted ILLUSION  :-)

I can assure you it considerably more than that. Python has a complicated string
representation which can switch among different representations from ASCII to
UTF-32 depending on the contents of the string and what's being done to it.

  I started with ASM ... pre-4004/8008 ... as
  such I see things more at their basic level.

I started toggling programs into a PDP-8, but we have learned to use higher
level abstractions along the way since then.

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