[Changing the subject line, since we're way off the original topic] On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > .. >> If Python were to do something different then a naively translated >> algorithm from another language would fail. It's the behaviour that >> numerically-aware people expect, and I'd expect to get complaints from >> those people if it changed. > > Numerically-aware people are likely to be aware of the differences in > languages that they use.
Sure. But I'd still expect them to complain. :) Here's an interesting recent blog post on this subject, from the creator of Eiffel: http://bertrandmeyer.com/2010/02/06/reflexivity-and-other-pillars-of-civilization/ Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
