Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > OTHO, simple math-illeterate programmers like me will have hard time > maintaining such a code. Certainly, but again: Such main people are not the intended audience. The code is for people that know how to read these equations. I think a general rule of (any form of) writing is to write with your audience in mind. I always do that and happily, that audience is usually naked.
> Also and FWIW, it's not always possible to make > a direct translation of a mathematic formula|algorithm in Python, and > even when it is, it's not always the best thing to do wrt/ perfs (I > recently had such a case, and after a pythonic rewrite the code was > about 75% shorter, 50% faster, and 200% more readable for average joe > programmer). > Your point. Different game, but still your point. ;) >> ... my 2 sents, anyway ... > > May I add my 2 cents - or should I send them ?-) > No, actually you're supposed to smell them. Oh, how I love homophones! /W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
