Moving from Perl to Python
Harry George
hgg9140 at seanet.com
Sun Sep 26 18:05:49 EDT 1999
Ok, I know you meant to be sarcastic, but these things are possible....
What I asked for was just the cookbook. No need for the other perl
books. The cookbook happens to cover a lot of typical programming problems.
As for Numerical Recipes, several years ago I began writing a Modula-3
version (completely cleanroom, just retained the interfaces) and got
hassled by Press et al's lawyers. So I totally redid it as "m3na".
The python Numerical package has some of m3na's topics covered, but there
is more we could convert to python. Coming from Modula-3, the
modularity and object structure should at least feel familiar.
Sedgewick's book is another good candidate. He already has it in
Modula-3. I doubt we need a whole new hardcopy book -- the algorithm
analysis doesn't change. But I would like to see an agreement with the
publisher that it is ok to provide web access to a set of open source python
renditions of the algorithms. Years ago I did most of them in
Modula-2 myself, but the NR experience makes me want to get approvals
before making any public efforts.
Python renditions of the examples from the OpenGL programming guide is
another good project. I haven't gotton PyOpenGL running yet -- are the
examples already there? I did many of those in Modula-3 when building
the m3 bindings.
jonathon <jblake at stamp-coin.com> writes:
> 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>
>
> Other interesting/useful language translations might be
>
> _Numerical Fortran_/_Numerical C_/_Numerical Pascal_
> << Or has this been done? >>
>
> 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. >>
>
> Sedgewick's book on algorithms. Don't remember the title
> offhand. :-(
>
> xan
>
> jonathon
>
>
>
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Harry George
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