[Matrix-SIG] Re: advocacy

[Joe Harrington]

A week ago I posted a message asking who would be interested in
turning NumPy into a real data analysis package anyone could use.  I
received 15 responses, many offering substantial time.  Although I
mentionned a target of 20, this is a substantial number, and I think
it might grow once we got going.  I'm off to Chile for some fieldwork
(site survey for a new 13-meter infrared telescope at 17000 feet!),
but I'll be back mid-month.  For those who haven't seen it, Paul
Barrett and I wrote a summary of the session on data analysis
environments we held at ADASS VI.  It includes some of our vision for
an ideal environment.  It includes a separation of interpreter and
application code, so that the next generation of interpreter (a
fast-developing item) can use the last generation of application code
(once an FFT, always an FFT, for the most part).  See:

http://oobleck.tn.cornell.edu/jh/ast.html
http://oobleck.tn.cornell.edu/jh/ast/papers/idae96.ps

Back in a few weeks!

--jh--