Re: Python fo Numerical Programming (was Re: How to get into Scientific Programming)

John wrote:

> I'm not disagreeing, but presumably some kind of selection ("IF" or
> "skip next statement", etc) should be available for a Turing machine
> to operate. How's that performed in a sequence of functions?

By a discontinuous kind of function that is computed one way for one set 
of values of the independent variable and another way for other values 
of the independent variable.  John McCarther developed such a language 
and it is mostly what LISP is.

Bob Kolker