Am 17.10.2014 um 19:46 schrieb "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
<[email protected]>":
On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 17:16:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
Accurate is slower, but not this:
sum(a)/len(a)
Forgot to point out that the original point with mentioning Python in
the thread is:
1. Compiled static languages still have a long way to go with
expressiveness.
2. Generic operations on double will lead to wrong results. What happens
if your first value is very large? You loose the accumulation of the
smaller values, in the worst case you only get the first value. Thus you
will have to sort the values by exponent before accumulating or convert
it into a different format.
So yes, C++ iterators and D ranges are kind of cool, but cannot beat a
well engineered library and a good mapping to it on the language side.
(Python is of course not optimal in any way.)
I don't think I would have those issues with ML languages.
--
Paulo
