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Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic

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Date 2013-02-19 14:01 +1100
Subject Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2001.1361242894.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:39 PM, John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, February 18, 2013 2:58:57 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> How long did your BASIC version take, and how long did the Python
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>> >> version on the same hardware?
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>> >
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>> > Oops, my bad, you already posted the figures :) And I forgot to ask:
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>> > Which Python version didyou use?
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>> >
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>> > ChrisA
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>> Doh. I'm having a great day of not reading properly, today. (I blame
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>> checking mail on the bus, it took me over an hour to read this one
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>> message and I'd forgotten the subject line by the time I got to the
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>> end.) Python 3.3, right there in the header. Disregard me!
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>> ChrisA
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> Thanks,Chris. I'm a newbie to Python and didn't realize that it's not as good at number crunching as some of the others. It does seem to do better than Basic with numbers in lists as opposed to arrays in Basic.

Yes, Python is excellent at data handling. I'll cheerfully use Python
to manipulate huge lists or arrays, and its performance at that is
usually well within the "good enough" range (for instance, anything
that manipulates the file system will be waiting on my disks, not on
Python). It's an excellent tool in the toolkit, just not the one
solution to everything. (Nothing's that!)

ChrisA

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Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 11:13 -0800
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 08:55 +1100
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 14:54 -0700
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-02-19 08:46 -0600
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 11:31 -0700
        Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-02-20 08:21 -0600
          Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 11:38 -0700
            Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-02-20 16:49 -0600
              Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2013-02-20 16:59 -0600
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 22:28 +0200
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 08:39 +1100
        Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-02-20 18:32 +1300
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 08:56 +1100
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 08:58 +1100
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 17:39 -0800
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 14:01 +1100
        Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 20:17 -0800
        Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 20:17 -0800
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 17:39 -0800
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-20 17:06 +0000
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 09:01 +1100
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 15:15 -0700
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2013-02-19 01:11 +0100
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-18 19:36 -0500
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 17:47 -0800
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic John Immarino <johimm@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 17:47 -0800
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-18 19:50 -0500
    Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-02-19 12:42 +0100
      Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2013-02-20 01:23 +0100
        Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 18:04 -0700
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-19 00:28 -0500
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-02-19 12:52 +0200
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 13:13 +0200
  Re: Python 3.3 vs. MSDOS Basic Olive <diolu.remove_this_part@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-19 15:02 +0100

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