Hi Ben, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > I have said this before, and it can't be repeated often enough. The work > that you and your team has been doing the past few years with the notebook > is *already* revolutionizing how we teach python. 10 years from now, > programmers will point to this as the *killer* feature of python.
well, your kind words are very much appreciated, truly. It's been a ton of work, and at this point far more credit goes to the rest of the team than to me. One thing I'd like to emphasize is how strong, productive and positive the collaboration between IPython and matplotlib has been over time: we have managed to allow both projects to fully retain their identity (we don't even have a hard dependency on mpl in IPython, and matplotlib doesn't even import IPython at all), and yet the two projects complement each other very well, benefiting both of them, and ultimately all of our users. A good combination of communication and collaboration has allowed us to maintain a strong separation of concerns while providing users a feel of integrated functionality where it matters. I have every reason to believe that, as we push into the second decade of this effort with the vision of challenges and ideas that John and Michael D. recently laid out (at the SciPy'12 keynote and in Michael's posts), this is only going to get better. The web work is going to be a pretty tough challenge, but at the same time it's a great opportunity to revisit key parts of matplotlib with a lot of hindsight we've accumulated. That kind of hindsight is what let us refactor all of IPython over the last few years, so that while the user experience at the terminal from 0.10 to 0.11 remained mostly unchanged (we did have some regressions but they were pretty mild), we had a completely new architecture under the hood that paved the way for the qt console, the notebook and the current parallel machinery. I hope we'll see similar benefits as the web forces us to rethink matplotlib for a multiprocess model. Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
