On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 00:58 +0200, bearophile wrote: […] > If you support NumPy well and efficiently through Pyd, I think > some people will start using the D language just for this :-) > > NumPy is good but it usually forces you to program vectorially, > like Matlab. Sometimes this is not nice, so people write some > routines in Fortran, C, etc. With Pyd some scientific programmers > maybe will want to use D instead.
The idea of a Python/NumPy/D combination, especially if connected to OpenCL does have great appeal. NumPy and D for computation and Python for data visualization and coordination would be an improvement over the currently canonical Python/NumPy/C/C++/Fortran. But there is a large inertia to the system that has built up in the bioinformatics and HEP communities. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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