What is python's language level?

Daniel Berlin+list.python dan at cgsoftware.com
Tue Apr 4 23:38:11 EDT 2000


>>>>> "Ivan" == Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at callware.com> writes:


    Ivan> It's most certainly Turing-complete.  It ain't what you call
    Ivan> convenient or readable, but once you understand what you're
    Ivan> doing you can write anything you want in it.  Including
    Ivan> calculators and prime-number sieves.


Reminds me of a neat little raytracer written in postscript someone
posted many years ago.

I was just playing with it a few minutes ago.
About 7k, raytraces 5 spheres by default.
you have to set the max ray depth to about 3 or 4 or it'll take
forever.
Ghostscript can use it to raytrace a 128x128 image in about 70
seconds.
sphere col get aload vec copy /VU exch store'ly y'rs,
Dan




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