APL-like python for fun

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

> Is this a good idea? Probably absolutely not, but it is quite fun. :-)

Besides being cool clean fun, I wonder - only semi-jokingly - if it may
be useful to streamline the interface between "algorithmists" and
"developers". In many organizations "scientists" are supposed to produce
algorithms in the form of pseudocode that "developers" are supposed to
translate to working code. Stuff is often lost in translation, the
pseudocode is found to be incomplete or buggy or completely
unimplementable, the developers are found to be mathematicaly illiterate
or worse, and so on.

So can, for the beneft of companies who employ scientists who cannot
program but know maths and corresponding notation alongside developers
who know the syntax but can't figure out what is wanted of them, the gap
be bridged? Can the "mathematician" write down the algo in pseudocode,
using agreed upon conventions, then "unfontify" it and check that it a)
compiles; b) produces correct output for given inputs thus testing for
bugs ike off-by-one tha can easily crawl into unrunnable pseudocode? If
the pseudocode contains some statements that the "pretty-unfontified"
version's compiler barfs on that likely means that the algo is
incomplete and some operation/function/whatever is un(der)?defined. This
will be flagged before it aggravates the coder's life, etc.

It's fun to muse, not just to write elisp. Thumbs up for knowing to
enjoy yourselves, regardless of utility.
 
-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org