[Zope] Future watch: how will python division change affectzope?

Steve Drees drees@the-bridge.net
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:53:47 -0500


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> We're not talking about third graders, we're talking about 7th graders and
> up - C programmers, C++, Java, even BASIC.
>
> They "know" that 1/2==0, but that 1.0/2 == 1/2.0 == 0.5.  This is because,
> mathematically, the numeric representation is really floor(1.0/2.0).
>
> These are the people that will be programming Python, not english majors.
> English is not a programming language.

I want everybody to use python. Not just C programmers.