[HN Gopher] Python's Innards: Introduction ___________________________________________________________________ Python's Innards: Introduction Author : johnsonjo Score : 38 points Date : 2020-09-16 04:43 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (tech.blog.aknin.name) (TXT) w3m dump (tech.blog.aknin.name) | 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... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-16 23:00 UTC)