Python for air traffic control?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.994178646.957.python-list at python.org...
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> At the very least various designs and algorithms to solve the problem
> could be prototyped in Python, then recoded in C for their final
> application.  People (I think the timbot is one of them) have said
> that by prototyping algorithms in Python you can try out more
> algorithms and find the best one in less time and you don't feel so
> bad about throwing away the bad algorithms because you didn't spend so
> much time coding it.

Indeed! This is a wonderful approach. And you can couple it with
the profiler module to find out more about the bottlenecks of your
program etc. when experimenting with different algorithms. After
implementing and playing with the code, migrating to another language
becomes much easier than starting from scratch in that language.

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> -D
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