On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 13:23, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > Mon, 18 May 2009 09:21:39 -0700, David J Strozzi wrote: > [clip] >> I also like pointing out that Yorick was a fast, free environment >> developed by ~1990, when matlab/IDL were probably the only comparable >> games in town, but very few people ever used it. I think this is a case >> study in the triumph of marketing over substance. It looks like num/sci >> py are gaining enough momentum and visibility. Hopefully the numerical >> science community won't be re-inventing this same wheel in 5 years.... > > Well, GNU Octave has been around about the same time, and the same for > Scilab. Curiously enough, first public version >= 1.0 of all the three > seem to have appeared around 1994. [1,2,3] (Maybe something was in > the air that year...) > > So I'd claim this particular wheel has already been reinvented pretty > thoroughly :)
It's worth noting that most of numpy's indexing functionality was stol^H^H^H^Hborrowed from Yorick in ages past: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1995-November/000143.html -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
