On Feb 9, 2005, at 17:48, Perry Greenfield wrote:
When we started this, one of those that suggested putting much of the code in Python was Guido himself if I recall correctly (I'd have to dig up the message he wrote on the subject to see what exactly he
My memory tells me that the NumPy community asked if there was any chance to get arrays into the core if the code was decent, and Guido replied positively.
Actually, as I understand it, Guido had ruled out including Numeric well before numarray even got started. I can't claim to know exactly his reasons (I've heard various things such as he looked at the code and didn't like it, or Paul Dubois and others advised him against it; I
There was pretty much a concensus at the time that we shouldn't make fools of ourselves by proposing the existing codebase for inclusion in the core. Konrad. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Tel.: +33-1 69 08 79 25 Fax: +33-1 69 08 82 61 E-Mail: hinsen@llb.saclay.cea.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------