Python Written in C?

Dan Upton upton at virginia.edu
Mon Jul 21 00:08:13 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
> On Jul 20, 10:05�pm, Stephen Johnson <dior... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Carry bits? Who worries about carry bits when you have
>> > unlimited precision arithmetic? You want cool?
>> > THIS is cool:
>>
>> > j = ((invert(xyz[1]-xyz[0],xyz[1]**(k-1))*(xyz[1]**(k-1)-prev_gen[2]))
>> > % xyz[1]**(k-1))/xyz[1]**(k-2)
>>
>> You call that "cool." I call it "unreadable."
>
> Ok, but not in the sense that something like
> Scheme is unreadable as this is nothing but
> algebra (albeit complicaed).
>

Scheme doesn't *have* to be unreadable... any more unreadable than any
other language when poorly documented/formatted, anyway.


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