Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:39, Python wrote: One correction to Bill's announcement: Our guest speaker this month will be our own Lloyd Kvam, who knows something about Functional Programming. It's probably more accurate to same that I am interested in Functional Programming. I wish I *really* knew more about it. Functional Programming is *mega cool*, which, of course, is not telling you much substantively beyond the fact I like it. During the time I was doing Python development, I made heavy use of the lambda function and wish I had the same in other languages I program in. I could accomplish in one or two lines with the lambda function what would normally take me 10-20 lines procedurally. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:41:31 -0400 Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could accomplish in one or two lines with the lambda function what would normally take me 10-20 lines procedurally. Let's see now, that's clickety..clickety 10 to 1 or so. 10-20 lines are harder to read by about that much too. (IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) -Bill (*) Hoping, of course, that Fred will come to the meeting! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
(IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) If I were him I'd be afraid to show off my coding skills because y'all might make fun of me in public, and I've never really cared for roasted lambda chops. ;- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
Michael ODonnell wrote: (IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) If I were him I'd be afraid to show off my coding skills because y'all might make fun of me in public, and I've never really cared for roasted lambda chops. ;- ROFL! Actually, I am not afraid to show my programming skills, as I have done so in various programming courses I've taught in the past. Alas, my Python prowess is *not* current, as I have not written much Python since the time series pattern sniffers I wrote during my day-trading days that would scour trading data for statistically significant recurring patterns. These Python scrips would run all night long looking for exploitable trading patterns in all the major securities and give me a report in the morning a few hours before the market opened. It was truly a wonderful system, integrated with MySQL, Java, and C++ running on a cluster of 5 computers, and would -- on my custom-written real-time charts -- alert me when that pattern re-emerged and show it to me graphically *on the chart itself*. Having the patterns that were, say, successful 70% of the time was one thing. Being able to execute the trades based on those patterns was quite something else. 70% success rate also meant a 30% failure rate, and knowing when a trade was failing or succeeding was pretty tough, especially when you have 10s of thousands of dollars on the line. Anyway, enough of my rambling and reveling in the good old days. If I get back into Python anytime soon, I'll be more than happy to give a talk on it. Actually I have a new language in mind I'd like to write, something highly experimental, that would basically put OOP on steroids. I hope to be able to do that soon. Functional Programming would definitely play a role, but that role would be minor in lieu of what I hope to accomplish. Giving away my secrets; gotta stop doing that! :-) -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
Fred, If you want to, feel free to bring some examples to talk about. On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 13:34 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:41:31 -0400 Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could accomplish in one or two lines with the lambda function what would normally take me 10-20 lines procedurally. Let's see now, that's clickety..clickety 10 to 1 or so. 10-20 lines are harder to read by about that much too. (IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) -Bill (*) Hoping, of course, that Fred will come to the meeting! ___ Python-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax:320-210-3409 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester
One correction to Bill's announcement: Our guest speaker this month will be our own Lloyd Kvam, who knows something about Functional Programming. It's probably more accurate to same that I am interested in Functional Programming. I wish I *really* knew more about it. On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:22 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote: How time flies! Leaves turning, school started... time for another PySIG meeting. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
