[Numpy-discussion] ?

[Konrad Hinsen]

boncelet at udel.edu@SMTP at python.org writes:

> > are used to. Which means they expect 2/3 to be a reasonable
> > approximation to its true (rational) value, accepting roundoff
> > problems.
> 
> This is undoubtably correct.
> 
> But (donning my contrarian hat), while appealing to newcomers
> is a laudable goal, Python will die if it does not appeal to serious
> programmers writing serious code.  The CS world is littered with
> dead teaching languages (anyone remember PLC?).  IMHO, the
> right question to ask is "what do serious programmers want?"

Making the bold claim to be a serious programmer, I'd say they want to
be able to specify either integer or float division, but they don't
care about the precise syntax, as long as both are straightforward to
do.
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