Jon Harrop: Is so wide cross-posting positive?
> 4. Static type checking.< This is a Python newsgroup, you will find less lovers of static typing here :-) >Overall, Mathematica is a whopping 700,000 times slower!< Your Mathematica code is cute, but surely Mathematica isn't designed for that kind of "programing". It's more for symbolic processing or to perform few operations in a very flexible way, so it's more for research and *exploration* and visualization; while more normal programming languages are more to compute a lot of things when you already know what you are doing. > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/ You can write versions for Python, Psyco, ShedSkin, too, if you want. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
