On 2007-09-06, André <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 6, 7:29 pm, windandwaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sep 7, 9:50 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Seewww.python.org. Trust us all when we say that its the best.
>>
>> I get that feeling - yes. Question is:
>>
>> 1. what is it good for?
>
> Pretty much any programming task, except perhaps those that require
> extreme computation speed (like weather modeling).
Even then there are some very powerful numerical and scientific
libraries that are _way_ easier to use from Python that they
are from C and Fortran (the languages in which such libraries
are often written). You gain 99% of the speed with none of the
pain.
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