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Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type
Date 2015-02-01 09:38 +0200
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>:

> There is a real conflict between the logician's goal and the
> educator's. The logician wants to minimize the variety of ideas,
> and doesn't mind a long, thin path. The educator (rightly) wants
> to make the paths short and doesn't mind–in fact,
> prefers–connections to many other ideas. And he cares almost not
> at all about the directions of the links.

The natural language has a rigorous grammar plus a lexicon that includes
a number of idioms. Nobody has so far been able to codify a natural
language completely because the rigorous grammar consists of maybe
10,000 rules.

Perl came out of the needs of natural language translation. Perl's novel
idea was to make a programming language like a natural language (yes,
there had been Cobol). So Perl's language description evades a complete,
rigorous description, but it has numerous handy idioms for many common
situations.

Python showed that while interesting and amusing, Perl's way leads to
unnecessary clutter. Why make things complicated when simple will serve
everybody's needs best.


Marko

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  Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type beliavsky@aol.com - 2015-01-29 14:39 -0800
    Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-29 17:40 -0800
      Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-01-30 08:32 +0100
        Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 08:27 -0800
          Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 10:08 -0700
            Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 09:31 -0800
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              Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 11:15 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-30 10:23 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-01-31 09:27 +0100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-31 11:51 +1300
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-31 10:49 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-31 14:22 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 07:50 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-31 19:43 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 18:30 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-01 09:38 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-02 03:49 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-01 20:57 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-02 12:59 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-02 13:05 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 10:51 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 13:04 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-02 18:01 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 10:52 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2015-02-02 12:56 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 15:27 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-02 16:08 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 08:21 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-02 16:52 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 04:25 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-02 18:34 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 10:15 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Matthew Barnett <auxlang@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-02-02 02:35 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 13:45 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2015-02-01 23:12 -0500
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2015-02-01 23:14 -0500
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 15:47 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-02 16:06 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-31 17:59 +0000
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-01 13:27 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-31 22:26 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-01 09:58 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-02-01 09:14 +0100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-01 21:12 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 17:50 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 18:02 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 09:39 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 09:25 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 19:57 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 11:23 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-02 20:54 +0200
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 18:02 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type beliavsky@aol.com - 2015-02-02 05:30 -0800
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-31 10:50 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 20:49 -0700
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-31 22:04 +1100
                Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 08:18 -0800
          Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 23:12 +0000
          Re: [OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-01-30 20:35 -0700

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