ANN: Dogelog Runtime, Prolog to the Moon (2021)

Mostowski Collapse bursejan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 16:27:18 EDT 2021


A friend just sent me a Web Sudoku made with Dogelog Runtime
https://gist.github.com/jburse/c85297e97091caf22d306dd8c8be12fe#gistcomment-3895696

LoL

Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Donnerstag, 16. September 2021 um 21:59:05 UTC+2:
> Here is a challenge for Python. 
> Can Python solve Sudoku? 
> 
> Mostowski Collapse wrote: 
> > I am not testing this use-case. But a related 
> > use-case might highlight why speed did never 
> > hurt anybody. 
> > 
> > Lets say you program a flying drone with Python, 
> > and the measurement is from the drone sensor 
> > and communication systems. 
> > 
> > Lets say you are using the idle time between 
> > measurements for some complex planning. It 
> > is then not true that you have anyway 
> > 
> > to wait for the measurement. 
> > 
> > Hope this helps! 
> > 
> > BTW: If somebody knows another Python implementation 
> > I am happy to test this implementation as well. 
> > I am assuming that the standard Python python.exe 
> > 
> > I tested amounts to CPython? Not sure. And the 
> > GraalVM is practically the same as JPython? Not 
> > sure either. 
> > 
> >> Opinion: Anyone who is counting on Python for truly fast compute 
> >> speed is probably using Python for the wrong purpose. Here, we use 
> >> Python to control Test Equipment, to set up the equipment and ask for 
> >> a measurement, get it, and proceed to the next measurement; and at the 
> >> end produce a nice formatted report. If we wrote the test script in C 
> >> or Rust or whatever it could not run substantially faster because it 
> >> is communicating with the test equipment, setting it up and waiting 
> >> for responses, and that is where the vast majority of the time goes. 
> >> Especially if the measurement result requires averaging it can take a 
> >> while. In my opinion this is an ideal use for Python, not just 
> >> because the speed of Python is not important, but also because we can 
> >> easily find people who know Python, who like coding in Python, and 
> >> will join the company to program in Python ... and stay with us. 
> >> --- Joseph S. 
> >


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