On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote:
> On 8 Sep, 15:08, pdpi <pdpinhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Come, come. I think it's a good rule that, where available, a > > vendor- supplied implementation is the preferable choice until > > proven otherwise. > > Even for the simplest of equations? > Yes. It might be implemented in some clever way that you didn't think of, and thereby work much faster or more precisely than your own implementation. Or it could come with a whole library that might help you with other tasks related to what you're doing. And just a matter of personal opinion: I think the phrase "you are not competent to do any scientific programming" was overly harsh. Not that the general sentiment of "this is actually easy" shouldn't be expressed at all, but bringing in estimations of competence based on two sentences might hurt feelings that were in no need to be hurt. /W -- INVALID? DE! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
