Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Stephen J. Bevan]

Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:
> Are these algorithms reason enough to have machine word sized
> numerical data types as the default for a _general purpose_ language?

I've no idea, I don't care that much what the default is since I
prefer to specify what the type/size should be if the compiler fails
to infer the one I wanted :-)