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On 1/13/25 11:16 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:55:45 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>>     Python is perfectly good, so WHERE could the problem be  ....
> 
> A world renown C programmer would never stoop to something as plebeian as
> Python. Why do something adequate for the task in 50 lines when you can do
> it in 500?

   Depends - do you get paid by the hour ?  :-)

   In any case, Python isn't THAT much more verbose, and
   it's easier to understand. Yer 'C' code may be smaller,
   but ideally there's a LOT of comment lines .... even
   you won't understand half of it in a year or two.

   But, as said, I often split the diff and program
   in Pascal.