Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

> For what I can
> remember of my first love (Physics): if you have a small ball
> moving inside a spherical cup, it would be almost crazy to use
> cartesian orthogonal coordinates and Newton's laws to solve it -
> the "obvious" way would be to use spherical coordinates and the
> Lagrangian formulation (or at least I hope so

Yep, that's right.

> - surely knowledgeable people will find more "obviously" which is
> the right way).

No, this case is IMHO almost classical. Movement with planar
constraints can be solved quite easy using Lagrange.

> All classical mechanics formulations may be equivalent, but 
> in certain cases one is much more suited that the others.

Or: Lagrange is the only obvious way to describe movement with
constraints.

Regards,


Björn

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