converting letters to numbers

[rusi]

On Monday, October 14, 2013 10:32:36 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:32 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
> > def add(c1, c2):
> >      % Decode
> >      c1 = ord(c1) - 65
> >      c2 = ord(c2) - 65
> >      % Process
> >      i1 = (c1 + c2) % 26
> >      % Encode
> >      return chr(i1+65)
> 
> Python uses # for comments, not %, as I'm sure you know. What language 
> were you thinking off when you wrote the above?


Maybe Tim was putting in the percentage of CPU cycles (wetware cycles??) on Decode, Process and Encode. So we have the % but not the percent…