Prose practice

Python 3.0 (also known as Python 3000) has been released yesterday, so I thought I'd give it a try. It turns out that a recent release candidate is in official Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) repositories, so I did not even need to compile anything: apt-get install python3.0 and we're done. You may want to read the summary of changes from Python 2 beforehand.

Here's a quick demo of unicode identifiers:

>>> 二 = 2
>>> 四 = 二 + 二
>>> 四
4
>>> import math
>>> π = math.pi
>>> α = π/3
>>> math.sin(α)
0.8660254037844386

This isn't quite APL yet, but we are getting closer!

# posted by Gintautas Miliauskas @ 15:22