[sdiy] large numbers

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Michael E Caloroso wrote:
> I inherited a system at work that uses Python.
>
> I've been building and maintaining systems for 25+ years in my career
> and in my professional opinion Python is not a very good language.

Care to elaborate?
Just guessing a few things: Isn't that a "right tool for the job" thing?
Some people enjoy it for scientific computing / visualization over 
Matlab for some scenarios.
I guess I wouldn't use it for anything that goes over a lot of data and 
does computations in python itself, as it's slow as hell. If it's mostly 
calls to libraries written in C, though...
Or anything bigger / complex.

For whipping together short scripts that quickly do something for you, 
it seems to be good. Less verbose than many other languages, rich and 
expressive, so there are less code blocks and boiler plate code to get 
something done quickly.
I say that from impressions gained watching others use Python, I'm not 
literate in Python myself and don't like how it looks, and am generally 
skeptical of (the merit of) dynamic typing (as such, not things often 
falsely attributed as exclusive, defining characteristics of dynamic 
languages).


- Steve


>
> MC
>
> On 7/14/18, ASSI <Stromeko at nexgo.de> wrote:
>> On Friday, July 13, 2018 8:33:42 PM CEST Tim Ressel wrote:
>>> I am playing with using a 64 bit accumulator in a DCO (NCO?) to fix the
>>> top jitter problem. The notion is that increased resolution in the
>>> increment value will cause less top jitter.
>> In that particular case, you are most certainly trying to solve the wrong
>> problem (increasing the resolution of the phase accumulator beyond
>> reasonable)
>> using the wrong tool (Excel, which uses double floating point numbers, so
>> 53bits of mantissa)  …unless you've somehow figured out how to run your NCO
>> at
>> several dozen GHz.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Achim.
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