Re: Fortran pros and cons (was Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space)

Michael Tobis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Michael Tobis wrote: > > > Fortran 90/95 is more expressive than Fortran 77 in many ways, as > > described in ... > > http://www.nr.com/CiP97.pdf . > > > > > ... expresses more science per > > line of code and per programming workday. > > The exam

Re: Fortran pros and cons (was Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Tobis wrote: > Fortran 90/95 is more expressive than Fortran 77 in many ways, as > described in ... > http://www.nr.com/CiP97.pdf . > > ... expresses more science per > line of code and per programming workday. The example shown on p 10 illustrates a shorter pi

Fortran pros and cons (was Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space)

Michael Tobis wrote: > > Fortran programmers are generally happy with the portability of the > > language. > > Until they try to port something...? Honestly, I can't imagine where > anyone would get this impression. >From the fact that Fortran has been used on hundreds of platforms and that many

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

On 30 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sparring > with Alex Martelli is like boxing Mike Tyson, except that one > experiences brain enhancement rather than brain damage :). +1 QOTW :-) Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Tobis wrote: > > (unwisely taking the bait...) > > > > If you like your language to look like this > > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/OOF90/bugs.html > > then more power to you. > > Thanks for pointing out that interesting article on Fortran 90 bugs. > How long w

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had in mind the Polyhedron Fortran 90 benchmarks for Windows and > Linux on Intel x86 at > http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/linux/f90bench_p4.html and > http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/win32/f90bench_p4.html . The speed > differences of Absoft, Intel, and Lahe

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes You're saying that using a different and better compiler cannot speed the execution of your Fortran program by 25% when you move it from one platform to another...?! This seems totally absurd to me, and yet I see no other wa

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

Alex Martelli wrote: > > For scientific computation, consider the case of Numeric > > and Numarray. I don't think Numeric binaries are available for Python > > 2.4, > > ? Just > googled and visited the first hit -- I don't currently

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Tobis wrote: > > (unwisely taking the bait...) > > > > If you like your language to look like this > > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/OOF90/bugs.html > > then more power to you. > > Thanks for pointing out that interesting article on Fortran 90 bugs. > How lo

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The recent "Pystone Benchmark" message says that Python is only 75% as > fast on Linux as on Windows. no, it really only says that the Pystone benchmark is 75% as fast as Linux as on Windows, on the poster's hardware, using his configuration, and using different compile

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

Michael Tobis wrote: > (unwisely taking the bait...) > > If you like your language to look like this > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/OOF90/bugs.html > then more power to you. Thanks for pointing out that interesting article on Fortran 90 bugs. How long would a comparable C++ list be? Even Python

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

(unwisely taking the bait...) If you like your language to look like this http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/OOF90/bugs.html then more power to you. I prefer my languages to be portable, terse and expressive. That's why I like Python. If you want your language to be obscure, ill-defined and inconsis

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The suggestions in the cited article, "How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language", are reasonable but elementary and can be followed in Fortran 90/95/2003 as well as any other language. What infuriates me is that the author writes as if Fortran has not evolved since the 1960

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >One ought to do a little research before publishing an article. >Apparently, many authors and editors are too lazy to do so. > ... and/or ignorant or unculture

Re: Coding style article with interesting section on white space

Nick Coghlan wrote: > Thought some folks here might find this one interesting. No great revelations, > just a fairly sensible piece on writing readable code :) > > The whole article: > http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=271&page=1 > > The section specifically on white

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Thanx Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Coding style article with interesting section on white space

Thought some folks here might find this one interesting. No great revelations, just a fairly sensible piece on writing readable code :) The whole article: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=271&page=1 The section specifically on white space: http://www.acmqueue.com/m