Re:Neugram – Scripting in Go
by mjburgess on Saturday November 04, 2017 @07:13AM
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At a guess, I would describe it as a trade off between syntax and semantics.
Languages that have simpler syntax tend to have far more complex semantics (to infer what's missing, etc.).
Eg. python's semantics is horribly complex: "hello".upper() is something like str.__dict__['upper']("hello")) -- which is all run-time. Whereas say a C++ version amounts to quite a simple run-time function call on some bytes.
Languages that have simpler syntax tend to have far more complex semantics (to infer what's missing, etc.).
Eg. python's semantics is horribly complex: "hello".upper() is something like str.__dict__['upper']("hello")) -- which is all run-time. Whereas say a C++ version amounts to quite a simple run-time function call on some bytes.