[HN Gopher] Python's Innards: Introduction
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       Python's Innards: Introduction
        
       Author : johnsonjo
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2020-09-16 04:43 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | nerdponx wrote:
       | I highly recommend this talk by Armin Ronacher as an
       | accompaniment (or prologue, or epilogue) to the article: "How
       | Python was shaped by leaky internals",
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
        
       | emerged wrote:
       | The main takeaway I got from this is how many ads managed to get
       | through my adblocker. Impressive. Refused to read the article as
       | a result though.
        
       | tadkar wrote:
       | There's also this wonderful book [1] covering similar ground for
       | Ruby. An extract from a review gives a flavour:
       | 
       | "Ruby Under a Microscope" does something fairly ambitious. It
       | attempts to write a system internals book in a language that non
       | computer scientists can readily understand. While there are
       | numerous code snippets and examples to try and examine, the
       | ability to look at the various Ruby internals and systems and see
       | how they fit together can be accomplished by someone with general
       | skills and basic familiarity with programming at the script level
       | (which for many of us is as far as we typically get). An old
       | saying says you can't tell where yo hare going if you don't know
       | where you've been. Similarly, we can't expect to get the most out
       | of languages like ruby without having a more clear idea what's
       | happening under the hood. It's entirely possible to work with
       | Ruby and never learn some of this stuff, but having a guide like
       | "Ruby Under a Microscope" opens up a variety of avenues, and does
       | so in a way that will make the journey interesting and, dare I
       | say it, even a little fun.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-
       | Int...
        
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