
March 24, 2010
7:04 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> wrote: ..
If Python were to do something different then a naively translated algorithm from another language would fail. It's the behaviour that numerically-aware people expect, and I'd expect to get complaints from those people if it changed.
Numerically-aware people are likely to be aware of the differences in languages that they use. I think in this day and age you are more likely to hear from confused Java programmers than from Fortran or even C folks.