Python for air traffic control?

[Alex]

> What I meant is that for each airplane, he needs to calculate the
> distance to every other airplanes; that's O(N^2).  ;-)

And what I meant was that he doesn't.  *shrug*

> Ultimately, though, it depends on how the data (from the radar) are
> given to Python script, and this wasn't clear in the original post.

How does the general collision-detection algorithm depend on the format
of the data received from the radar?

> Judging by his thin skin, I don't think it was a serious post.

I think that both his original post and his response were pretty
reasonable, actually.

Alex.