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  • Python Success Stories

    ...Fortran 77 was eliminated because of its archaic character, lack of memory management, and portability issues in C-Fortran interfacing. C++ was a candidate, but ultimately not chosen because portability between compilers was still an issue in 1996, and because I considered the benefits of C++ for the small amount of compiled code in the project insufficient to compensate for the complexity of the language. Library architecture The architecture of MMTK is clearly Python-driven. To the user, it ...

  • [PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] FAQ

    ...FORTRAN numerical code out there. Obviously the ultimate goal is to have this a part of the base pythondistribution. I'll start thinking more about this once I make thegeneral release to the community at large. 6) Hints for Windows Users You must use binary mode files for pickling and unpickling matrices inthe windows world. Blame Bill for the silliness.

  • Other Documentation Tools

    ...Fortran, LaTeX, Postscript, Tcl/Tk, LISP, Forth, Perl, Shell Scripts, Occam, COBOL, HTML, and others (according to their blurb). I don't see any links to examples that aren't part of their documentation (hence, heavily marked and annotated). short -- Documentation extraction tool distributed with GNU SmallTalk; looks like it's more of a modified pretty-printer than a text documentation tool. Auto...

  • Glue It All Together With Python

    ...Fortran programs, and gradually acquired many features of scripting languages (variables, conditionals, loops, procedures and so on) with increasing awkwardness. Because Python has existing interfaces to so many different components in very different application domains, Python is ideal for oddball integration tasks. It can link a commercial database to number-crunching code; it can add a graphical user interface to a network management tool; it can send email from a virtual reality ...

  • A Journey to Python

    ...Fortran, PL/I, C, C++, Java...), all the way to "higher-level" languages which I had always used whenever feasible (Rexx, APL, AWK, Icon, Perl, Scheme...). But never had I met something that "fit my brain" as perfectly as Python. At my "real job", at that time, the language du jour was mostly C++, with a smattering of Visual Basic and a proprietary scripting language that had been developed in-house and was embedded in the applications we developed and sold. Howev...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...FORTRAN implementation of complex scientific algorithms is usually much more efficient. Nexedi found the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK) to be a good starting point for ERP5's linear programming needs. GPLK is written in C, and interfacing it to Python was achieved in only a couple of hours using the SWIG glue libraries. Nexedi now distributes a Python GLPK module, python-glpk, which provides the power of linear programming in Python. Conclusion The ERP5 abstract model has been found to redu...

  • Python Humor

    ...Fortran programmers as somehow less likely than anyone > else to learn something new is unlikely to produce any insight. C YES I AGREE. I STARTED OUT PROGRAMMING IN FORTRAN ON A TOPS-10 S 000100 C YSTEM AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES. ALTHOUGH, I MUST ADMIT, I STIL 000200 C L HAVE SOME BAD HABITS I PICKED UP FROM THOSE OLD DAYS, BY AND LA 000300 C RGE I BELIEVE I HAVE OVERCOME MOST OF THE WORST ONES. 000400 Nolo Contendre Subject: Re: Does Python meet the definitions of...

  • Python Success Stories

    ...FORTRAN for a few months back in the 1970s. Most hackers aren't these days, but somehow our culture seems to have retained a pretty accurate folk memory of how nasty those old-style fixed-field languages were. Indeed, the term "free format", used back then to describe the newer style of token-oriented syntax in Pascal and C, has almost been forgotten; all languages have been designed that way for decades now. Or almost all, anyway. It's hard to blame anyone, on seeing this Python featu...

  • EDU-SIG: Python in Education

    ...Fortran code. tools for integrating C/C++ code. SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular operating systems, are q...

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