On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 07:32:17 -0500 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: > > I come from old(er) school (1980s, 1990s) embedded systems, and who > "owns" a particular mutable data structure and how/where it gets mutated > always came up long before we wrote any code. No, I'm not claiming that > pre-ansi C and assembler are more productive or less runtime error prone > than newer languages, but is this feature only necessary because > "modern" software development no longer includes a design phase or > adequate documentation?
"Modern" software development is just like older software development in that regard: sometimes it includes a design phase and/or adequate (i.e. sufficiently precise) documentation, sometimes it doesn't. > Memory management implementation details is a long way from executable > pseudo code. (30 years is a long time, too.) This isn't really about memory management, though. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FLFOIOJTTEAMPMQ6MQ5SLI43VMUTY45Z/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
