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On 2014-11-02, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> They value
>> running on everything
>
> Portability seems to be a valid engineering goal.
>
>> with a battery
>
> No. This is Python's domain. C and C++ are relatively naked.
>

In what I think is the OP's case, C is way more portable than Python
because it can be used for things that Python will never run on such
as small microcontrollers. I think that's what the OP meant with the
"battery" reference.

However, the OP is out of touch with reality when saying this level of
portability is a bad thing. This level of portability is required in
the real world and with the right language, and widely supported
compilers, we should be able to have wide ranging portability _and_
a safer programming ecosystem.

Simon.

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