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From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> writes:
(snip)
> If you have algorithms to implement that need big integers, then Python
> is in my personal experience the best language to use, since you can
> simply employ the common arithmetic operators.
(snip)

While I generally agree with the rest of your article, it's worth noting
that this feature isn't actually all that unusual: for instance, I
mentioned Erlang in this thread, that's just the same:

1> 12312425346256765374684238375938743 * 3248593486436262526624534316562252.
39998064782082472270063499350743119830535735017989634112753098129236

Haskell seems to agree,

Prelude> 12312425346256765374684238375938743 * 3248593486436262526624534316562252
39998064782082472270063499350743119830535735017989634112753098129236

and lets you do list comprehensions just as in Python.

One thing that pains me in Java is I can't even easily define a function
that takes Number x and Number y and returns x + y.

-- Mark

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