Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!multikabel.net!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!uio.no!nntp.uib.no!svn.schaathun.net!not-for-mail From: Hans Georg Schaathun Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 06:13:07 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3gf498-tuh.ln1@svn.schaathun.net> References: <87iptw1egh.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <87ei4k0ygz.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <87aaf7246f.fsf@rudin.co.uk> <4dbd221a$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4dbedec0$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <38f398-14h.ln1@svn.schaathun.net> <4dbf4a99$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vannskorpion.bccs.uib.no X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1304402254 16853 129.177.20.20 (3 May 2011 05:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2011 05:57:34 GMT User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4527 On 03 May 2011 00:21:45 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote: : Python aims at acceptable performance (between 10 and 100 times slower : than C) and much easier development (between 10 and 100 times faster than : C *wink*). If that tradeoff doesn't suit you, perhaps Python is not the : language for you. It isn't the trade-off per se which bothers me, but certain features which seem to make compilation harder without making development any easier. But then, it probably depeds on what kind of development you are doing. -- :-- Hans Georg