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 :) .. [1] http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/news/yorick.10 .. [2] http://www.scilab.org/platform/index_platform.php?page=history .. [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave#History -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
