(May-16-2022, 05:27 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: [ -> ]It is technically possible by using ctypes library. (code is actually embedded C)
Indeed.
Now do the same in Jython or IronPython
(May-16-2022, 06:19 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: [ -> ]If you think about it, the only thing that exist from the language's perspective are names.
I would say that
names are one thing that Python
doesn't have, at least not as a value.
Python has many different kinds of objects: ints and floats and lists and dicts and many, many more, but one thing it doesn't have is names. Names are not
first-class citizens in Python -- you cannot pass a name into a function, or return it, or assign it to a variable. When we try, like
func(name), the argument that
func receives is not a name, but the
value bound to that name.
Of course you can do all these things with
strings but strings are not names, even if you can use them as names.
If Python had names as a first-class data type, not just strings, then we could simulate
pass by name calling conventions without needing
eval.
stevendaprano,
Python has not only survived, but flourished since It's first release on October 16, 2000.
Some major implementations are:
YouTube
Instagram
Reddit
Netflix
DropBox
...
Somebody's got to like it.
If you don't like something, just try something new.
I worked in instrumentation (spectra-chemical), and worked almost exclusively with assembler and forth.
Then C for many years. (about 14 years)
Still use C, but for 95% of what I write, I use python.
For embedded work, there's Micropython which will run on many MCU's including ESP32, ESP8266, Pi ...
(May-17-2022, 11:33 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: [ -> ]Python has not only survived, but flourished since It's first release on October 16, 2000.
Python's
first public release was 0.9 in February 1991. I started using Python 1.5 in 1998 or so.
I have no idea what happened on October 16 2000, but it certainly wasn't the first release of Python. E.g.
Python 1.5.2 was released in April 1999.
You don't have to defend Python to me, or tell me:
Larz60+ Wrote:If you don't like something, just try something new.
I'm not planning on going anywhere. Python has spoiled me for other languages.