On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 14:20 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > reluctant to learn something new. Crowd 2. we can win over, yet > we have failed to communicate with them, to reach out to them. > Most people I know have a look at D's homepage and say "Uh! Hm. > Ah, I'll use Python." No, they are not hardcore programmers, they > are engineers and scientists. But they are _users_, people who > need to write software to analyze data, to create something. We > should not ignore them, even if they are not (initially) > interested in templates and metaprogramming. Neither was I, when > I first learned D.
It is not Python or R or Julia the language that people choose, it is the superstructure built on top. So for Python, it is Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, NumPy. And the ability to use ready made C, C++ and Fortran libraries. -- 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
