On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 7:32:52 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Pop et al wont work with frozen sets > > Containment wont work with sets — what mathematicians call 'not closed' > > All of which amounts to this that python sets are not really pleasant for > > math-work > > Funnily enough, Python has never boasted that it's great for > mathematicians.
True that > Time and time again I see posts here that try to > explain Python from the POV of pure mathematics, and they always seem > to end up getting convoluted and awkward. Unrelated that. Look at all the fundamental operations here https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/operator.html What percentage of these are unrelated to math? And how do you write even the simplest assignment statement without a (mathematical) expression on the rhs? And a look at history: What *were* Turing, Church, von Neumann, even Knuth by training? Mathematicians or CS-ists? And what *are* the contributions of Turing, Church, von Neumann, Knuth to CS? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
