Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.015 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.04; 'python.': 0.05; 'relates': 0.05; 'adams': 0.09; 'derived': 0.09; 'programmer': 0.11; '>>>': 0.12; 'am,': 0.14; 'error:': 0.14; 'wrote:': 0.14; 'defined': 0.15; '42,': 0.16; 'computation': 0.16; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'expense': 0.23; "didn't": 0.25; 'drag': 0.25; 'subject:data': 0.26; 'chris': 0.27; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.28; '"the': 0.28; 'subject:?': 0.29; 'sat,': 0.29; 'certainly': 0.29; 'calculated': 0.31; 'it.': 0.31; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.32; 'execution': 0.33; 'clearly': 0.34; 'douglas': 0.35; 'subject:What': 0.35; 'subject:use': 0.35; 'allow': 0.36; 'rather': 0.36; 'some': 0.37; 'received:209.85': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.38; 'built': 0.39; 'cut': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'comes': 0.39; 'received:209': 0.39; 'said': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'back': 0.61; '2011': 0.62; 'view': 0.64; 'heavy': 0.69; 'thousand': 0.83; 'received:209.85.210.174': 0.84; 'received:mail- iy0-f174.google.com': 0.84; 'subject:other': 0.84; 'reasons:': 0.91 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vhjJx6B+7NOTEPJpnSz0VhpEa1OUqz7oL30q/gunIxE=; b=q9iuJqeGar9bdpEdU6s6fPLZFoYpuoK3V+8SmXqKW6kewWx93CpQ8PTdb58MPk0G2B uFcQpVL5F2W8B3vipW4+WKdiCM6XiVsKV0aeGmbjtP0RDgqA/lEJjCrfA1BTby/z57C6 d6TRGjDI1VIwHNqO9vAoSJ0B1Vcuht+iIKKYU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L6sJ+IbBPTackm7iH7X3fzHGR+419zsCJWAbsuA3ZTUWZNqA2J3L3uqjAJ7cQ0FrZW zUKjvw0nZRsbqY8F0MQHsZijjP5xKQKtRYWNRGwTML2ukRMgS5nve/4H0RIERjTsiNC0 v3SE1wxKbBSQkD+MkYIj36vddMCbsEKdZZeJE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4XXwp.18782$Ot6.2313@newsfe15.iad> References: <4dbd1dbf$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4XXwp.18782$Ot6.2313@newsfe15.iad> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 09:43:20 +1000 Subject: Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python? From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1304725403 news.xs4all.nl 81474 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:34831 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4874 On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:25 AM, harrismh777 wrote= : > Chris Torek wrote: >>> >>> with the Python-named-Monty, we have "rigidly defined areas of >>> >doubt and uncertainty". =A0These exist for good reasons: to allow >>> >different implementations. >> >> Oops, attribution error: this comes from Douglas Adams rather >> than Monty Python. > > Well, its certainly Monte-esq.... I like it, whoever said it. Same style of humour, they both derived significantly from Spike Milligan and "The Goon Show". That particular quote relates to the famous computer that calculated the number 42, which - to drag this, kicking and screaming, back to some semblance of on-topicness - was clearly built with a view to conserving programmer time at the expense of execution time. I don't understand why they didn't just recode the heavy computation in C and cut it down to just a few thousand years... Chris Angelico