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So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?

Deep_Feelings wrote:
> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
> you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?

I've heard of "C" and "D", but not "x", unless you mean XPL (X
Programming Language) or PLAN-X.

On Jul 14, 10:55*am, Deep_Feelings <doctore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
> you did so , and *what negatives or positives it has ?

language must have

- unlimited precision integers
- easy to program
- IDE not required
- reasonable speed
- math library needs to include number theoretic functions
like GCD, LCM, Modular Inverse, etc.
- not ****ing retarded like F#

That leaves Python (along with gympy, the Python wrapper for
the GMP library, which could be used with C or C++ if it weren't
for the ease of use issue) as the obvious choice.

As for negatives, the GMP library doesn't factor.

As for positives, you can call a factoring program from Python
and capture the output (and have it correct the bug in the factoring
program without having to fix the factoring program).

Deep_Feelings wrote:
> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
> you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?

Java, pays a living.

*duck*

Stefan

Mensanator <> writes:
> - unlimited precision integers
> - easy to program
> - IDE not required
> - reasonable speed
> - math library needs to include number theoretic functions
> like GCD, LCM, Modular Inverse, etc.
> - not ****ing retarded like F#

Have you looked at Haskell?

> As for negatives, the GMP library doesn't factor.

Maybe with some MIRACL bindings...

In article <4a5ccdd6$0$32679$>,
Stefan Behnel <> wrote:
>Deep_Feelings wrote:
>>
>> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
>> you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?
>
>*duck*

Where do you get the duck programming language?
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:47:08 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

>> - unlimited precision integers
>> - easy to program
>> - IDE not required
>> - reasonable speed
>> - math library needs to include number theoretic functions
>> like GCD, LCM, Modular Inverse, etc.
>> - not ****ing retarded like F#
>
> Have you looked at Haskell?

Given his comment about F#, I have a suspicion that he might be
dogmatically opposed to functional languages generally.

Deep_Feelings wrote:
> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
> you did so , and what negatives or positives it has ?

This summarises my reasons for choosing Python
fairly well:

http://www1.american.edu/cas/econ/fa...ose_python.pdf

--
Greg

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, greg<> wrote:
> Deep_Feelings wrote:
>>
>> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
>> you did so , and Â*what negatives or positives it has ?
>
> This summarises my reasons for choosing Python
> fairly well:
>
> http://www1.american.edu/cas/econ/fa...ose_python.pdf

+1 PDF Of The Week

- Chris
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http://blog.rebertia.com

On Jul 14, 11:55*am, Deep_Feelings <doctore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you have chosen programming language "x" so shall you tell us why
> you did so , and *what negatives or positives it has ?

As a hobbyist--and not a real programmer*--I think I chose Python
(I don't really recall now) because of things like:

- There is a good community, including tutor list, etc.
- I wanted something that would run cross-platform (so no Visual
Basic).
- Preferred something free (so no REALBasic).
- I wanted a high level language.
- It seemed easiest to read and learn. I like mandatory indents, for
example.
- There are a lot of libraries for it with good support.
- I liked the Zen of Python philosophy (to the extent I understood
it).
- Some high profile entities were using it, so it must have something
going for it.
- It was new enough to be a possible improvement over older languages
while old enough to be established.
- Who can't like a computer language named Python?

Drawbacks:

- AFAIK, running multiple Python apps all show up in the Windows task
manager as
"python.exe" (common to all non-compiled languages?) instead of the
app's name.
- Distributing as an executable is not as straightforward as I might
hope.
- I wish Python 3 wouldn't break my 2.5 code.
- If it could be quicker (compiled), that would be better. (But
haven't tried
psyco or Shed Skin, etc.)
- I've found understanding web programming hard, but that might be
just the
nature of web programming and not a Python thing.
- I wish wxPython had a more complete rich text editor (but overall it
is great).

CM