I've given several talks on the subject, but I don't think I've ever written a blog-post about it. A reasonable history does exist in the beginning of the "Guide to NumPy" which is still available for free at
http://www.tramy.us/numpybook.pdf -Travis On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry that I missed this part of numpy history, I always had the >> impression that numpy is run by a community led by Chuck and the young >> guys, David, Pauli, Stefan, Pierre; and Robert on the mailing list . >> (But I came late, and am just a balcony muppet.) > > Travis, when you have a free minute (ha :) it would be very nice if > you wrote up a blog post with some of the history from say the 2000s > with Numeric, through Numarray and into Numpy. Some of us saw all > that happen first hand and know it well, but since most of it simply > happened on mailing lists, conferences and assorted meetings, it's > actually quite hard to understand that history if you arrive now. > It's not really written up anywhere, and nobody is going to read 10 > years' worth of email archives :) > > Guido a while back wrote a fantastic set of posts on the history of > python itself that I've greatly enjoyed: > > http://python-history.blogspot.com/ > > something similar for numpy would be nice to have... > > Though thinking more about it, perhaps a better alternative could be a > 'history of the scipy world' where multiple people could write guest > posts about each project they've had a part of. I think something > like that could be a lot of fun, and also useful :) > > Cheers, > > f > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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