On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:04:46 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > John Ladasky > > 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.
One man's powerful is another's simple A beginning C programmer treats lists as a "data structure" for an advanced course on data structures A beginning python programmer starts using them in his first hour or at worst day Likewise python does this with the help of numpy >From which one could conclude one of - This (numpy-using) 9 lines is advanced - Numpy needs to be in python's core My guess of Marko's intent of bringing up APL is just to show a language in which numpy is effectively in the language core My other guess is that these same 9 lines could be translated to R with no import PS I am not advocating numpybuiltintopython -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
