Thoughts about extensions to the Python language

Mitch Chapman mitchchapman at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 17 11:13:14 EST 2001


Pearu Peterson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Grant Griffin wrote:
> > Still, one can write FORTRAN in any language.  (But it takes so much
> > work to write FORTRAN in Python that lazy folks don't bother.)
> 
> What do you mean in the parenthesis? Wrapping Fortran programs to Python
> is now even easier than wrapping C programs. 

I think he meant "write Python code with the mindset of a
Fortran programmer."  This would entail lots of global variables, 
humongous function bodies and modules, etc.  (Dunno if this still holds; 
I'm basing it on the 20-30 year old code I used to maintain.)

--
Mitch



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