Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am thinking about learning a programming or a scripting language.
> The eventual goal to to use it for financial modeling, which would
> eventually mean some use/knowledge of a database software. This would
> be my first foray in programing. Any suggestio
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Python has that whole whitespace for control thing. Love it or
> > hate it I think all would agree that if it were not for that one
> > feature that Python would be the dominant language today if not
> > for that one design decision.
>
> Quite the cobr
Before going into the general purpose scripting and programming
languages, there are a bunch of languages designed purposefully for
modelling.
If you are doing simulations there is SIMULA.
R (http://www.r-project.org/), the statistical app., also allows you
to create scripts and modules useful fo
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Python has that whole whitespace for control thing. Love it or hate
> it I think all would agree that if it were not for that one feature
> that Python would be the dominant language today if not for that one
> design decision.
Quite the cobrary. I think that if people wo
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
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} Python has that whole whitespace for control thing. Love it or hate
} it I think all would agree that if it were not for that one feature
} that Python would be the dominant language today if not for that one
} design decision.
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Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> Thanks Matt. What about Ruby or Python? Any idea what the differences
> are and which one is more easier?
Basically you are setting the stage for a long list of posts about
various programming languages. :-}
Python has that whole whitespace for control thing. Love it or hate
Rajiv Vyas writes:
> What about Ruby or Python? Any idea what the differences are and which
> one is more easier?
Python is easier to learn and Pthyon code is easier to understand. It's
quite easy to produce write-only Perl.
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On 8/7/05, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:16 -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> > I am thinking about learning a programming or a scripting language.
> > The eventual goal to to use it for financial modeling, which would
> > eventually mean some use/knowledge of a dat
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