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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> 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.
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