On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:25:09 PM UTC-5, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:33:56 -0700 (PDT), zipher > <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> declaimed the following: > >You are making a error that few in the programming community have caught up > >to. OOP design for *data abstraction* is a completely different beast that > >OOP for *simulation*. The confusion is around the use of the word "object" > >which both denotes a physical world item and a virtual one detached from > >reality. > > > >I would say that Python might not be the right fit, but instead a language > >dedicated to simulation. > > The danger there is that a "language dedicated to simulation" might > mean "discrete event" simulation -- which would be an even worse fit to a > problem of particle motion simulation.
Huh? VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with discrete events. I don't see how you're going to update a variable non-discretely. Tensors? Good luck. Mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
