Using Python for programming algorithms

[Jaap Spies]

Vicent Giner wrote:
> Thank you very much for all the answers I've got.
> 
> As far as I have understood, Python can be a good alternative, or, at
> least, a reasonable choice.
> 
> I intend to design new algorithms for a kind of Optimization problems,
> and then I have to implement them and show/prove that they are good
> enough, in terms of effectiveness (quality of the solution that the
> algorithm is able to find, for some given "difficult" problems), and
> not mainly in terms of efficiency (time to find the solution).
> 
> I mean, in order to prove that my algorithms are "good", I have to
> compare them with the results given by other algorithms, in terms of
> how much better is the solution given by my proposal, in front of the
> previous ones. Only comparatives in terms of "number of iterations",
> and not "time to find the solution", can be done (I think).
> 

Here you find good company in the Sage developers community!

Jaap


> And I also realize, from your posted answers, that the point is doing
> a good programming work, and that I will have to look very carefully
> at all those packages and resources you have mentioned, to do a good
> work at Python.
> 
> Any other suggestion will be welcomed.    :-)
> 
> Thank you very much again!
> 
> --
> Vicent