On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:18:02AM -0700, Brendan Barnwell wrote: > On 2016-08-29 00:07, Ken Kundert wrote: > > > >I completely believe Ken that within a single tightly focussed user > > > >community, using their expected conventions (including SI prefixes) > > > >works really well. But Python users do not belong to a single tightly > > > >focussed user community. > > You think that Python is only used by generalists? That is silly. Have you > > seen > > SciPy? If you think that, take a look at Casa (casaguides.nrao.edu). It is > > written by astrophysicists for astrophysicists doing observations on radio > > telescope arrays. That is pretty specialized. > > I think you misunderstand. My position (reiterated by the text you > quote > from Steven D'Aprano) is not that Python is used only by generalists. It is > that we shouldn't change Python in a way that ONLY helps specialists. >
But surely we should consider changing Python if the change benefits a wide variety of specialists, especially if the change is small and fits cleanly into the language. In this case, our specialists come from most of the disciplines of science and engineering. That is a pretty big group. -Ken _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
