Great! Another silly solution to a simple problem. You americans are really crazy - instead of making good and cheap public transport system, you are inventing things as carpool lanes and foldable cars. I am from Prague, and we have quite good subway here, which transports one Prague's population per day. It's like with those electronic voting machines (we use traditional ballots, and usually get the results in 6 hours after closing the polls) or healthcare system (we have socialized one with not much problems for patients, but efforts to dismantle it are unfortunately underway).
I like Python too, but it is really unsuitable to do numerics. Many people do, but their use c extensions for the real computation, and python as a frontend. Your example would be 20x or more slower than the equivalent in c.
Recently, there was a story at segfault.org, which said essentialy the same. It's about how MS realized that all people using words like word, office or windows are infringing their patent. The story ends that free software movement quickly responds with new, although somewhat awkward, but copyright-free, words.
Maybe the lawyers of adobe were inspired here ??
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Great! Another silly solution to a simple problem. You americans are really crazy - instead of making good and cheap public transport system, you are inventing things as carpool lanes and foldable cars. I am from Prague, and we have quite good subway here, which transports one Prague's population per day. It's like with those electronic voting machines (we use traditional ballots, and usually get the results in 6 hours after closing the polls) or healthcare system (we have socialized one with not much problems for patients, but efforts to dismantle it are unfortunately underway).
I like Python too, but it is really unsuitable to do numerics. Many people do, but their use c extensions for the real computation, and python as a frontend. Your example would be 20x or more slower than the equivalent in c.
Recently, there was a story at segfault.org, which said essentialy the same. It's about how MS realized that all people using words like word, office or windows are infringing their patent. The story ends that free software movement quickly responds with new, although somewhat awkward, but copyright-free, words.
Maybe the lawyers of adobe were inspired here ??