> I talked to astrophysicist about your comments, and what she said was: > 1. She would love it if Python had built in support for real numbers with SI > scale factors > 2. I told her about my library for reading and writing numbers with SI scale > factors, and she was much less enthusiastic because using it would require > convincing the rest of the group, which would be too much effort. > 3. She was amused by the "kilo pico speed of light" comment, but she was > adamant > that the fact that you, or some system administrator, does not understand > what kpc means has absolutely no affect on her desired to use SI scale > factors. Her comment: I did not write it for him. > 4. She pointed out that the software she writes and uses is intended either > for herself of other astrophysicists. No system administrators involved.
It has been pointed out to me that the above comes off as being condescending towards Steven, system administrators and language developers in general. For this I am profoundly sorry. It was not my intent. My only point was that the output of these numerical programs are often so highly specialized that only the authors and their peers understand it. Let me go further in saying that if anything I have said in this discussion has come off as critical or insulting please know that that was not my intent. I have tremendous respect for what you all have accomplished and I am extremely appreciative of all the feedback and help you have given me. -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/
