On 11/17/2013 5:25 AM, E.D.G. wrote: [snip several paragraphs that have nothing to do with Python]
A couple of sentences of follow-up would have been sufficient. 'We decided to go with Fortran and True-Basic and not Python."
PERL SPEED COMPARISON Some of the early discussions leading to this point involved calculation speed comparisons for Perl and Python. The table on the following Web page contains some interesting speed comparisons between various programming languages. They are all compared to the speed it takes a "C" language program to run the tests. http://julialang.org/
[snip discussion of perl that is off-topic for python-list] -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list