Lada Kugis wrote: > On 01 Apr 2009 01:26:41 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > >> Why Python (and other languages) count from zero instead of one, and >> why half-open intervals are better than closed intervals: >> >> http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/26/why-computer-scientists-count-from-zero/ >> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html >> > > steven, thanks for answering, > > yes, i saw the second one a little time ago (someone else posted it as > well in really cute handwriting version :) and the first time just > now, but the examples which both of them give don't seem to me to be > that relevant, e.g. the pros don't overcome the cons. > > imho, although both sides (mathematical vs engineer) adress some > points, none of them give the final decisive argument. > i understand the math. point of view, but from the practical side it > is not good. it goes nicely into his tidy theory of everything, but > practical and intuitive it is not. as i said, being an engineer, i > tend towards the other side, so this is biased opinion (nobody can be > unbiased) but from a practical side it seems unpractical for > engineering problems (and to me, the purpose of computers is to help > humans to build a better world, not to prove theories - theories are > useless if they don't help us in reality. so we should try to adapt > computing to real world, not our world to computers). > Speaking about "reality", it would have saved a lot of time (but maybe not fun) to just do :
>>> myRange = lambda x : range(1, x+1) >>> myRange(4) [1, 2, 3, 4] Put it in a file named "MyIntuition.py" in the python path, and then in your programs you can code : from MyIntuition import myRange
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