Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:41:23 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

I'm saying "Iran" here because you need to note that anything done in
the Arabic language at the height of Islam, were almost entirely
Iranians' works, not Arabs' ...

Look at all the mathematical/scientific terms that got into use in, say,
English, that begin with “al” -- “algebra”, “algorithm” “alkali” and so on
-- these are all from Arabic words/names, not Persian ones. The Persians
have always had their own language, even after they converted to Islam;
why wouldn’t they have used it?

Every culture on Earth has some knowledge of astronomy. The Babylonians
were the first large-scale measurers of the heavens, and the later Greeks
were able to use their figures, which were accurate enough to deduce that
the equinoxes were precessing according to a 26,000-year cycle.

But it took the Arabs to find the first known variable star. They called
it “the demon” -- “al-ghul”, or today “Algol”.