On Thursday 30 July 2009 03:09:14 greg wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
And if code is data, where is Pythons ALTER statement?
class Duck:
def quack(self):
print Quack!
def moo():
print Moo!
def ALTER(obj, name, TO_PROCEED_TO):
setattr(obj, name, TO_PROCEED_TO)
d =
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
The COBOL source was
more obscure, as any jump could have been altered,
and you could not see that until you have read further
on in the program, where the ALTER statement was.
Well, in Python you can pretty much replace any
function with any other function, so you
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 17:11:02 MRAB wrote:
If you were a COBOL programmer, would you want to shout about it? :-)
Hey don't knock it! - at the time, it was either COBOL or FORTRAN
or some assembler or coding in hex or octal.
And if code is data, where is Pythons ALTER statement?
*Ducks*
:-)
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
And if code is data, where is Pythons ALTER statement?
class Duck:
def quack(self):
print Quack!
def moo():
print Moo!
def ALTER(obj, name, TO_PROCEED_TO):
setattr(obj, name, TO_PROCEED_TO)
d = Duck()
ALTER(d, 'quack', TO_PROCEED_TO = moo)
d.quack()
--
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
I have
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should
Xah Lee wrote:
PHP is functional.
PHP is functional, as in it functions!. PHP is not functional, as in
it ain't functions!
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com
wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46
magicus wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com
wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:22:29 +0100, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com
wrote:
magicus wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com
wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
In article
So do all these OSes have some kind of __mega_unifying_poll system
call that works for anything that might possibly block, that you can
exploit from a user process?
On Linux at least, the select/poll/epoll is that system, the trick is to
use eventfd, timerfd and signalfd which are Linux
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre language.
Could you tell us more?
- Hendrik
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On 7/26/09, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
David Robinow wrote:
This doesn't mean they're on the same level - in fact, if you read
carefully
you'll see my original post said as much: python attracted average
programmers; php attracted mediocre programmers and even some
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre
Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
I have searched, but I can find nothing about
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Aahza...@pythoncraft.com wrote:
In article mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to
In article h4gnmr$8c...@news.eternal-september.org,
Raffael Cavallaro raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com wrote:
On 2009-07-25 00:55:26 -0400, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com said:
But please don't put it on the same level as PHP. Their situations
have almost nothing in
On 2009-07-26 09:16:39 -0400, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) said:
There are plenty of expert C++
programmers who switched to Python;
plenty is an absolute term, not a relative term. I sincerely doubt
that the majority of python users were formerly *expert* C++
programmers.
your thesis only
This doesn't mean they're on the same level - in fact, if you read carefully
you'll see my original post said as much: python attracted average
programmers; php attracted mediocre programmers and even some
non-programmers, which means that php is clearly a lesser language than
python.
I'm a
David Robinow wrote:
This doesn't mean they're on the same level - in fact, if you read carefully
you'll see my original post said as much: python attracted average
programmers; php attracted mediocre programmers and even some
non-programmers, which means that php is clearly a lesser language
In article h4gnmr$8c...@news.eternal-september.org,
Raffael Cavallaro raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com
wrote:
php is clearly a lesser language than python.
I'm as much of a Python bigot as anybody. Likewise, I put down php for all
the sorts of theoretical reasons people
On 2009-07-26 17:04:23 -0400, Roy Smith r...@panix.com said:
One
needs to have a very highly developed sense of theoretical purity to look
down their noses at the language that drives one of the highest volume web
sites on the planet.
It's nothing to do with theoretical purity and everything
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:31:06 +0100, Raffael Cavallaro
raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com wrote:
On 2009-07-26 09:16:39 -0400, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) said:
There are plenty of expert C++
programmers who switched to Python;
plenty is an absolute term, not a relative
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:31:06 -0400, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On 2009-07-26 09:16:39 -0400, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) said:
There are plenty of expert C++
programmers who switched to Python;
plenty is an absolute term, not a relative term. I sincerely doubt
that the majority of python
PHP is popular because it is geared for the server-side web scripting
lang, and simpler and easy to use, than popular free alternatives at
the time (such as Perl and Java's JSP).
Python became popular primarily because its ease-to-read syntax.
Btween the two, PHP is much easier to use, and much
On Jul 24, 11:58 pm, ACL anonymous.c.lis...@gmail.com wrote:
I actually think that the thing holding lisp back is 'bus factor'.
Lets assume I have a java project and a lisp project:
Java project:
I have maybe 10 or 12 people on my team working on various subsystems
of my project. There are
ACL wrote:
Lisp project:
I don't need as many people...
Is there any actual evidence of that?
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Jul 24, 11:54 pm, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
References:
• Language, Purity, Cult, and Deception
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lang_purity_cult_deception.html
• What Languages to Hate
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_to_hate.html
• Lambda in
On 2009-07-25 00:55:26 -0400, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com said:
But please don't put it on the same level as PHP. Their situations
have almost nothing in common.
Their situations have much in common; Python attracted programmers away
from (for example) C++, becuse python is easier
On 2009-07-23 13:15:00 -0400, Isaac Gouy igo...@yahoo.com said:
I get
the feeling I'm missing the joke?
Yes, you are missing the joke. The point is that if python is 60x
slower than C, even if there were not a GIL, it would require running
the python program on a 60 core machine just reach
On 2009-07-23 23:51:02 -0400, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com said:
On Jul 23, 5:52 pm, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote:
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in
the market place despite starting 40 years later.
Probably due to similar
On Jul 24, 2:06 pm, Raffael Cavallaro
raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com wrote:
On 2009-07-23 23:51:02 -0400, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com said:
On Jul 23, 5:52 pm, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote:
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior as
On Jul 24, 11:06 am, Raffael Cavallaro
raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com wrote:
On 2009-07-23 23:51:02 -0400, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com said:
On Jul 23, 5:52 pm, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote:
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:17:52 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
So do all these OSes have some kind of __mega_unifying_poll system
call that works for anything that might possibly block, that you can
exploit from a user process?
Threads ;)
They also have the advantage that one thread can run while
On Jul 21, 10:09 pm, Raffael Cavallaro
raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com wrote:
On 2009-07-21 19:06:02 -0400, Neil Hodgson
nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com said:
Python uses native threads.
So it can be teh-slowness on all ur cores!
Perhaps like Xah Lee I find, after many years of Lisp programming,
these discussions increasingly frustrating and even, in some sense,
amazing. We can speculate all we want about syntax and semantics of
programing languages. What counts in the end are really the PRAGMATICS
of programming
game_designer alex.repenn...@gmail.com writes:
Perhaps like Xah Lee I find, after many years of Lisp programming,
these discussions increasingly frustrating and even, in some sense,
amazing. We can speculate all we want about syntax and semantics of
programing languages. What counts in the
Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
Yes, you are missing the joke. The point is that if python is 60x
slower than C, even if there were not a GIL, it would require running
the python program on a 60 core machine just reach parity with C. The
existence of the GIL means that in reality you'd probably need
Nobody nob...@nowhere.com writes:
They also have the advantage that one thread can run while another is
waiting on disk I/O, which isn't something which can be done with a
select/poll interface (even if select/poll worked for files, it doesn't
help for mapped files).
AIO can help with this,
On Jul 23, 2:37 am, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:17:52 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
So do all these OSes have some kind of __mega_unifying_poll system
call that works for anything that might possibly block, that you can
exploit from a user process?
Threads ;)
Yeah,
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in
the market place despite starting 40 years later.
Probably due to similar reasons that lead php to become remotely relevant.
Rui Maciel
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
In article urr9m.6558$ze1.5...@news-server.bigpond.net.au,
Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com wrote:
milanj:
and all of them use native threads (python still use green threads ?)
Python uses native threads.
But then it adds the global interpreter lock, which completely
On Jul 22, 9:36 am, Ron Garret rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
In article urr9m.6558$ze1.5...@news-server.bigpond.net.au,
Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com wrote:
milanj:
and all of them use native threads (python still use green threads ?)
Python uses native threads.
But
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Wrong. It only partially undermines the utility of native threads,
not completely. Native threading allows some threads to run while
others are blocked in a system call (as well as in a few other minor
cases), which can't be done with green
On Jul 22, 10:20 am, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Wrong. It only partially undermines the utility of native threads,
not completely. Native threading allows some threads to run while
others are blocked in a system call (as well
On 2009-07-22, Ron Garret rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
In article urr9m.6558$ze1.5...@news-server.bigpond.net.au,
Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com wrote:
milanj:
and all of them use native threads (python still use green threads ?)
Python uses native threads.
But then it
On Jul 22, 12:04 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Why is that such an advantage? Green threads work fine if you just
organize the i/o system to never block.
Because then I don't have to organize the I/O system never to
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:35:52 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Jul 22, 12:04 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Why is that such an advantage? Green threads work fine if you just
organize the i/o system
On Jul 22, 1:53 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:35:52 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks
pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 22, 12:04 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Why is that such an
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
I don't think your fantasy async-only all-green-thread langauge
implementation is possible anyway.
Erlang and GHC both work like that, quite successfully:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=threadringlang=all
How would you
On 21 Jul., 06:57, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
Scott Burson wrote:
Have you looked at ECL?
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
I've used it only a little, so I can't vouch for its stability, but it
fits the threading and license requirements (well, some corporate
lawyers have trouble
On Jul 21, 6:57 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
Scott Burson wrote:
Have you looked atECL?
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
I've used it only a little, so I can't vouch for its stability, but it
fits the threading and license requirements (well, some corporate
lawyers have trouble
On Jul 19, 8:31 pm, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
Python is not that bad. Unlike Lisp, there is much less undefined behavior,
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and MacOS X, which is stable, support multithreading and has a
default GUI
On 2009-07-21 05:37:27 -0400, milanj mil...@gmail.com said:
Someone should mention Clozure CL - http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl
As you can see there is os x, freebsd, linux, solaris and windows port
and all of them use native threads (python still use green threads ?)
and development is pretty
On Jul 19, 7:33 pm, fft1976 fft1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python 2.6
2 / 3 results in 0. Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed it,
Rainer Joswig wrote:
I'm not sure if it is fair to post a reference to a single
post by someone without context and without having used ECL.
If there are stability problems, people can report to the
ECL mailing list. The maintainers are very active.
This was just one example. Another one:
On 2009-07-19 19:31:36 +0100, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de said:
(e.g. I
don't know of a free modern and stable Lisp implemenation with
mulithreading support for Windows, with a licence with which you can use it
in closed source commercial programs, like you can do with Python).
Openmcl
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au writes:
Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 = 0 is the wrong thing
to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths.
True, but the question is how best to decide whether the
programmer wants to do integer maths.
Tim Bradshaw t...@cley.com writes:
On 2009-07-19 19:31:36 +0100, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de said:
(e.g. I
don't know of a free modern and stable Lisp implemenation with
mulithreading support for Windows, with a licence with which you can use it
in closed source commercial programs, like
On 2009-07-21 19:06:02 -0400, Neil Hodgson
nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com said:
Python uses native threads.
So it can be teh-slowness on all ur cores!
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=nbodylang=all
The global interpreter lock doesn't help much either.
--
Raffael
in 121683 20090719 210126 Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
In article 1cethsrrw8h6k$.9ty7j7u7zovn@40tude.net,
Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and MacOS X
Most people would still
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au writes:
Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 = 0 is the wrong thing
to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths.
I wonder whether 2/3 = ValueError is preferable.
--
Bob Martin wrote:
I think the OP means major PC operating systems. Those with a wider
knowledge of the computer world would consider IBM's mainframe operating
systems to be deserving of the description major.
Maybe you are right, if you mean big machines. I know mainframes a bit and
there
in 121708 20090720 072858 Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
Bob Martin wrote:
I think the OP means major PC operating systems. Those with a wider
knowledge of the computer world would consider IBM's mainframe operating
systems to be deserving of the description major.
Maybe you are right,
On Jul 19, 10:18 pm, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
Uh Carl ... are you familiar with the concept of mocking humor?
You got me, lip hurts bad. :)
Carl Banks
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Jul 20, 9:13 am, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au writes:
Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 = 0 is the wrong thing
to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths.
I wonder whether 2/3 =
On 2009-07-20, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
In fact, picking a computer language is the most important
discussion in Computer Science and eclipses even P=NP? in
significance. I sure hope we can keep this thread going for a
few months.
Please feel free to extend this flame-war
vippstar vipps...@gmail.com writes:
I wonder whether 2/3 = ValueError is preferable.
Not all software wants this. It shouldn't be part of the language but
rather part of your code if you need such a feature. (for instance, to
distinguish between 2/3 and divisions with 0 dividend).
I don't
On 7/20/2009 2:13 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au writes:
Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 = 0 is the wrong thing
to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths.
I wonder whether 2/3 = ValueError is preferable.
Not
On Jul 20, 7:50 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
vippstar vipps...@gmail.com writes:
I wonder whether 2/3 = ValueError is preferable.
Not all software wants this. It shouldn't be part of the language but
rather part of your code if you need such a feature. (for instance,
On Jul 19, 11:31 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
I don't know of a free modern and stable Lisp implementation with
mulithreading support for Windows, with a licence with which you can use it
in closed source commercial programs
Have you looked at ECL?
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
vippstar vipps...@gmail.com writes:
I don't see how to implement such a thing in my code,
Write a function:
(if ( x y)
ValueError
(/ x y))
I meant changing the behavior of integer division in python.
Wouldn't that mean 3/2 would also evaluate to ValueError?
Yes, the idea
On Jul 21, 1:22 am, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
vippstar vipps...@gmail.com writes:
I don't see how to implement such a thing in my code,
Write a function:
(if ( x y)
ValueError
(/ x y))
I meant changing the behavior of integer division in python.
Scott Burson wrote:
Have you looked at ECL?
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
I've used it only a little, so I can't vouch for its stability, but it
fits the threading and license requirements (well, some corporate
lawyers have trouble with the LGPL, but I think it's usable).
I didn't tried
fft1976 wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python 2.6
2 / 3 results in 0. Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed it, now
it returns 0.66, which will
fft1976 wrote:
How do you explain that something as inferior as Python beat Lisp in
the market place despite starting 40 years later.
Python is not that bad. Unlike Lisp, there is much less undefined behavior,
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and
In article 1cethsrrw8h6k$.9ty7j7u7zovn@40tude.net,
Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and MacOS X
Most people would still consider Solaris to be a major platform.
--
Roy Smith wrote:
In article 1cethsrrw8h6k$.9ty7j7u7zovn@40tude.net,
Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and MacOS X
Most people would still consider Solaris to be a major platform.
?? I do not, but I
On 7/19/2009 1:01 PM Terry Reedy said...
Roy Smith wrote:
In article 1cethsrrw8h6k$.9ty7j7u7zovn@40tude.net,
Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms Linux,
Windows and MacOS X
Most people would still consider Solaris to be
On Jul 19, 10:33 am, fft1976 fft1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python 2.6
2 / 3 results in 0. Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed it,
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 19, 10:33 am, fft1976 fft1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python 2.6
2 / 3 results in 0. Looks like with Python 3.1
Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com writes:
Most people would still consider Solaris to be a major platform.
?? I do not, but I have no idea what comes in 4th after the other
three by whatever metric.
one metric calls fourth as the iPhone OS...
On Jul 19, 4:29 pm, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 19, 10:33 am, fft1976 fft1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:09:28 -0400
Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article 1cethsrrw8h6k$.9ty7j7u7zovn@40tude.net,
Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
there is one free unique implementation on the 3 major platforms
Linux, Windows and MacOS X
Most people would still consider
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:33:39 -0700, fft1976 wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the fractional object 2/3. In Python
2.6 2 / 3 results in 0. Looks like with Python 3.1 they have fixed
it,
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 19, 4:29 pm, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 19, 10:33 am, fft1976 fft1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 9:55 am, Frank Buss f...@frank-buss.de wrote:
E.g. the number system: In many Lisp
implementations (/ 2 3) results in the
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