On 15-11-2009 5:38, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> In order to know that the point of the article is not that one gotta read the
>>> previous one.  As it is, without context, it FAILS.
>> Actually, the problem is that you're *guessing* he's comparing languages
>> without taking into account the difference in hardware speed.
> 
> "If the Atari BASIC program ran a thousand times, it would finish after 324,000
> seconds or 5400 minutes or almost four days. That means the Python version
> is--get ready for this--108,000 times faster than the Atari BASIC code."
> 
> This is not guessing.  This *is* a silly comparison, that's all, either being
> the point of the article or not.
> 

I don't think it is. The point is that people complain about something 
being 'slow' while it is more than 5 magnitudes faster than something 
that was not considered slow in it's time. This article is not about 
software or hardware but about human perception.

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