Moving from Perl to Python
William Tanksley
wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net
Sat Sep 25 21:20:41 EDT 1999
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:35:25 +0000 (UTC), jonathon wrote:
>On 25 Sep 1999, Harry George wrote:
>>I also have the perl books and like cookbook. I'm in the process of
> [ Text deleted ]
>>Except for copyright issues, I'd say just redo all the Perl
> A request to translate all the Perl Books into Python? <g>
I think he just wanted the Perl Cookbook, which would indeed be great
(except, of course, for the parts which are trivial in Python -- we don't
need no hashes-and-list man page ;-).
> Other interesting/useful language translations might be
> _Numerical Fortran_/_Numerical C_/_Numerical Pascal_
> << Or has this been done? >>
That's facinating indeed -- but I suspect that NumPy already has all of
those implemented (in C and linked to Python).
> Donald Knuth's _The Art Of Programming_ Python instead of MX.
> << At one time, Bill Gates automatically hired anybody who had
> worked through 75% or more of the questions in that book. >>
No, all they had to do was read through the whole series and be able to
prove it. 75% solution rate would be amazing. However, he didn't say
he'd hire you; he said, "send your resume to me." I can't see any
employer turning anyone who's done that away, though.
Impossible -- the purpose of MIX is to provide an assembly language which
allows the algorithms to be demonstrated at a low level. If Knuth used
Python for everything else, he'd still have to invent an assembly language
for the chapters on code generation. (See his homepage for more details.)
> Sedgewick's book on algorithms. Don't remember the title
> offhand. :-(
"Algorithms". A very good idea.
> xan
> jonathon
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