Standard Forth versus Python: a case study

[Terry Reedy]

<idknow at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> no sort() is needed to calculate the median of a list.
> you just need one temp var.

Of course.  But for a short enough list, the builtin sort() method may be 
faster than an O(n) algorithm coded in Python.  And .sort() is already 
present.

tjr