From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Sep 13 18:08:52 2000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add min/max tests. (4/4) 
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Edward Jason Riedy <ejr at EECS dot Berkeley dot EDU>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:09:14 -0500 (CDT)

On 13-Sep-2000, Edward Jason Riedy <ejr at EECS dot Berkeley dot EDU> 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