On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 09:11 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > My finance folks also rave about Pandas. I wish I could fork myself to > look into it.
Pandas is what makes Python a viable competitor to R. Most data science people will use one or the other these days. Though some (with budgets) will use Matlab or Mathematica. > Nevertheless, what I'm working on now should help libraries such as > Pandas for D. We have a large language but are unclear on recipe-style > idioms for writing library code. > Can I suggest that we avoid "should" and ensure that we have more of a "will". Instead of a bottom up approach, we perhaps need a top-down approach: Applications programmers do X, Y, Z, that are best support by data structures A, B, C, and A, B, and C are realized by library architecture α, β, γ. -- 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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