Re: Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

2006-10-12 Thread John Doty
Juho Schultz wrote: > John Doty wrote: > >> The problem: >> >> I have a bunch of image files in FITS format. For each raster row in >> each file, I need to determine the median pixel value and subtract it >> from all of the pixels in that row, and then write

Re: Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

2006-10-12 Thread John Doty
ta > boundary ) { /* Bin 2 */ *lowp = *--highp; /* Exchange */ *highp = thisdata; } else ++lowp;/* Don't move point */ } nlowbin = ( lowp - data ); if( nlowbin >= n ) return( NTH( data, nlowbin, n )); else return( NTH( highp, numdata - nlowbin, n - nlowbin )); } } -- John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. -- Specialization is for robots. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

2006-10-11 Thread John Doty
Paul Rubin wrote: > John Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have a bunch of image files in FITS format. For each raster row in >> each file, I need to determine the median pixel value and subtract it >> from all of the pixels in that row, and then write out the r

Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

2006-10-11 Thread John Doty
ly to be people with large private libraries of Forth legacy code. No doubt to them it really has been a boon. But I think this little experiment shows that for the rest of us, Python has a published base of reusable code that puts Forth to shame. -- John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. -- Specialization is for robots. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list