On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > John Ladasky <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net>: >> OK, that's cheating a bit, using Numpy. It's a nice little program, >> but it leverages a huge, powerful library. > > What would *not* be cheating? A language without a library would be > dead.
Sure, but there are different levels of cheating. Using a general-purpose programming language and its standard library isn't usually considered cheating, but using a language or library that's specifically designed for this purpose is less about "hey look how simple this is" and more about "hey look how awesome this lang/lib is". Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to brag; Python is beautifully expressive in the general case, but there are some amazing tools for special purposes. So I wouldn't call it cheating; it's a demonstration of the expressiveness of numpy. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
