@user21820 Unless something has changed, python is slow. The code I've written is in C, and it can still take a couple of days to render some of those images (though most of the Mandelbrot set images were on the order of 3-4 hours).
@XanderHenderson Yes Python is slow for ordinary word-sized computations. That's one disadvantage. But if you want arbitrary precision, it is not that slow.
@user21820 Honestly, C is about all I know. I know some BASIC from when I was a kid, and a little FORTRAN (I had to learn LAPACK at one point, while I was working on my masters). But, mostly C.
That's amusing. QB did not require numbered lines.
I guess I'm lucky.
But nobody taught me about recursion, so I once wrote a program to compute the following without using any functions: Given input n, find the number of n×n arrays where each cell is filled with 1 or 2 or 3 and no two adjacent cells have the same number.
It seems like the author of that code is the person to contact. The language is LaTeX, by the way. LaTeX is a typesetting language, used for writing technical documents. @SarGe
@sai-kartik I started programming on that in 2000. A series of backups and transfers into newer and newer computers preserved my programs from that ancient era.
Until I reached Win7 and discovered that it no longer supported 16-bit applications.
Then most recently I used DOSBOX to get them all back!
@user21820 I still have the KayPro my father used to write his PhD thesis, as well as a stack of 5-1/2 floppies. I'm not sure if any of it still works, though.
Unfortunately, I cannot buy any of those, because they all contain HFCS. So I am stuck buying drinks imported from Mexico on the rare occasions that I want to share a Coke with my daughter.
@XanderHenderson I've seen that. My Grandma's biggest complaint with her grandchildren back in the day was that we never finished to 12 oz cans of pop at family get togethers! (Before they'd get to warm to drink.)
@XanderHenderson Does the CS stand for corn syrup? I know non-diet pop in the US is now sweetened with Corn Syrup, whereas in Mexico, they use what was originally used here by CocaCola, e.g.: sugar.
