This reminds me some thoughts about time and date.

Originally date and time were ok but not so great.
Then one guy (brent) fixed it and people were happy and it was  
introduced in the base system.
At that time when time was introduced (in 3.7 I guess) it was a  
obvious choice.
Then chronos and aconcagua went out showing some other properties.

Now retrospectively I think that it would be better to have a minimal  
version in the system and
loadable external package. There are some exceptions to this strategy:  
announcements and regexp
(where this is more a language decision), but in general this is a  
good strategy

So we could rename median naiveMedian and have a package that does all  
the rest and
that people can load it.

Stef

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