How your company think about python?

[Michael Hudson]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> It's not hard to imagine that had the application been written in 
> python, the list insertion step would have been done using dictionaries.  
> I'm not sure how dictionaries work, but I'm guessing they're O(logN).  

Not really.  They're mostly O(1), but that's not really a helpful
piece of information in this situation.

They're pretty quick, is more relavent.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  $ head -n 2 src/bash/bash-2.04/unwind_prot.c
   /* I can't stand it anymore!  Please can't we just write the
      whole Unix system in lisp or something? */
                                       -- spotted by Rich van der Hoff