On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks for the link, an interesting discussion on the origin of array/matrices in python. also the end of matrix-sig is interesting http://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/2000-February/003292.html I needed to check some history: Gauss and Matlab are more than 10 years older, and S is ancient, way ahead of Python. Josef _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
