> people said that at first about numerical calculations in Python before NumPy 
> existed

I doubt it. Scientists *love* having a scripting language on top of
their fortrans. It's a very old idea.

--Josh

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Matt <hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Joshua Holbrook <josh.holbr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > it's not something that can't be done, it just hasn't been done yet,
>> > IMHO.
>>
>> Right. It's doable, it's just not actually that great of an idea.
>
>
> Hah, well people said that at first about numerical calculations in Python
> before NumPy existed, and Perl before PDL existed - after all that's what
> Mathematica and FORTRAN were for ;-)
>
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