Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Fabien Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python and Math Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:15:22 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: +L+NlaBbFxmjN1Tx9NZnQA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71750 Hi everyone, I am new on this forum (I come from IDL and am starting to learn python) This thread perfectly illustrates why Python is so scary to newcomers: one question, three answers: yes, no, maybe. Python-fans sure would argue "freedom of choice" is the most important, but "being able to find the right tool for me in less than three days" surely is important too. The paradox of choice ;-) Fabien