Re: [PATCH] Add min/max tests. (4/4)

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Sep-2000, Edward Jason Riedy <address@hidden> wrote:

| And "John W. Eaton" writes:
|  - 
|  - So, I think what is really needed is some way to tell the min and 
|  - max funtions what comparison operation (or function) to use.
| 
| Sorry for the long delay.  This is the right thing, but it's 
| terribly painful in a Matlab-like language.  And if you're
| not tied to a Matlab-like language, why not use Python?  ;)

Why Python in particular and not some other scripting language?  This
is a serious question.  I am not interested in starting a language
war.  But if I didn't want Matlab (or Octave), why would I choose
Python?

jwe