heron87

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   by heron87 13y ago

   No offense intended. I just have a slightly different understanding of a "scripting language": a — often domain-specific — language that is merely used to write small scripts/macros. But anyway, I did not want to start a disc
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   by heron87 13y ago

   Ehm, Python is not a "scripting language". It is a — as you said — general purpose programming language. And it is becoming more and more popular for scientific applications, where matrix multiplication plays a key role.
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   by heron87 13y ago

   I believe "high quality PHP" is an oxymoron. It's just impossible to be aware of all the pitfalls PHP contains. Here is just one example among many: > if( '33333333333333333333' == '33333333333333333334&#x27
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   by heron87 13y ago

   Not sure what you mean by "memory requirement" and "theoretical time". If you don't access the memory, what do you mean by saying you "need" it? If a turing machine — or a computer program, for that matter
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   by heron87 13y ago

   A definition of P indeed does not require a restriction on memory use. But the definition implies a restriction on memory: a polynomially bounded (in time) machine cannot use exponential memory (because reading 2^n cells on a tape require