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Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:46PM (#27040319)
> That's because programming in Python is basically same thing as programming in C, it is just more efficient.

Depends on what you're doing. If you're writing an operating system, programming in Python is not at all the same thing as programming in C. Ditto if you're writing an embedded system, especially if it uses memory-mapped IO.

Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by lmilcin on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:40PM (#27041967)
Well, I meant from the point of view of the act of programming.

It is understood that programming languages have other strengths and weaknesses. For example, JavaScript will be more suitable to programming in browser app than Python, even though Python is better general purpose language.

Those strengths and weaknesses frequently come down to some pretty arbitrary choices the author made and have nothing to do with the language.

I can imagine situation where JavaScript never happened and instead we would be programming browsers in Python.