On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:24:09PM -0700, Chris Barker via Python-Dev wrote:
> Over the years I've been using it (most of its life), Python has evolved to > become much less of a "scripting" language, and much more of a "systems" > language, and this addition is a (pretty significant) step more in that > direction. As I understand it, the most commonly accepted definitions are: Systems language: low-level languages designed to compile down to efficient machine code, suitable for writing operating systems, device drivers, and code for embedded systems. Application language: high-level language intended to insulate the programmer from the gory details of memory management, suitable for writing user-space applications. Scripting language: any interpreted high-level language the speaker doesn't like *wink* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language See also Ousterhout's (false) dichotomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy Python is certainly not a systems language in the sense of C, Ada or Rust. It could be classified as an application language, like Java. And it still remains an awesome glue language for C and Fortran code. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com