Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 04/11/2012 03:20 PM, John Nagle wrote: On 4/11/2012 6:03 AM, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, and received an excellent communcation about programming Deterministic Finite Automata (Finite State Machines) in Python. The following

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/04/2012 22:03, Dan Sommers wrote: These days, every job interview includes (or should include!) questions regarding which structures and which algorithms are better (or worse) for which circumstances, not to mention questions about algorithm complexity and big-O-notation. I find that peopl

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Antti J Ylikoski
On 11.4.2012 23:20, John Nagle wrote: On 4/11/2012 6:03 AM, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, and received an excellent communcation about programming Deterministic Finite Automata (Finite State Machines) in Python. The following stem

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Dan Sommers
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:20:29 -0700 John Nagle wrote: > You don't need those books as much as you used to. You > don't have to write collections, hash tables, and sorts much any > more. Those are solved problems and there are good libraries. > Most of the basics are built into Python. "Nee

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread John Nagle
On 4/11/2012 6:03 AM, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, and received an excellent communcation about programming Deterministic Finite Automata (Finite State Machines) in Python. The following stems from my Knuth in Python programming e

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Kurt Mueller
Am 11.04.2012 16:38, schrieb [email protected]: Antti J Ylikoski wrote: I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, Maybe it's godly coded... $ python Easter.py The year: 2012 (20, 'th ', 'APRIL, ', 2012) $ AFAIK it was the 8th of April 2012? Grüessli -- Kurt

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread mwilson
Antti J Ylikoski wrote: > > I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, > and received an excellent communcation about programming Deterministic > Finite Automata (Finite State Machines) in Python. [ ... ] > #You can adjust that for your needs. Sometimes I have the stat

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Antti J Ylikoski
On 11.4.2012 16:23, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-04-11, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, Yikes. I think if you're going to try to write AI in Pyton, you might want to start out programming something a bit simpler... ;) :-))

Re: Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-04-11, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: > I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, Yikes. I think if you're going to try to write AI in Pyton, you might want to start out programming something a bit simpler... ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

Donald E. Knuth in Python, cont'd

2012-04-11 Thread Antti J Ylikoski
I wrote about a straightforward way to program D. E. Knuth in Python, and received an excellent communcation about programming Deterministic Finite Automata (Finite State Machines) in Python. The following stems from my Knuth in Python programming exercises, according to that very good communica