Mark Dickinson wrote: > Hello all, > I've recently been granted commit privileges; so, following the usual > protocol, here's a quick introduction. I'm a mathematician by day; my > degree is in number theory, but five summers of Fortran 77 programming and > two semesters of teaching numerical analysis have given me a taste for > numerics as well. I discovered Python around twelve years ago and found > that it fit my brain nicely (even more so after nested namespaces were > introduced) and now use it almost daily for a wide variety of tasks. I've > been lurking on python-dev for longer than I care to admit to. I also > dabble in Haskell and O'Caml.
Very interesting! Are you aware of Sage? http://sagemath.org. All Python-based, developed originally by a number theorist (http://wstein.org), and with a rapidly growing team of developers (including John Cremona, who's contributed a lot of his code to Sage). The Python-dev team should be proud of the impact Python is having in scientific computing: python is without a doubt the leading tool for open source, high-level scientific codes (i.e. not Fortran/C), and growing. Thanks! I normally wouldn't announce this here, but please forgive the mini-spam (and let's continue off list if you are interested): http://wiki.sagemath.org/days8 Just contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you think you'd like to attend. Cheers, f _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
