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Travis E. Oliphant
Exactly!
I suppose people must vent, but the truth is that satisfying the
diversity of scientific Python users is *very* hard.
NumPy *is* trying to do something about the confusion between Numeric
and Numarray. I'm sorry you don't like the name, but it was properly
discussed and a host of other names were suggested before settling on
NumPy as the *least bad*.
Yes, it will be confusing for a few months, but then it will probably be
*less* confusing as people realize that NumPy *is* Numeric 3K
The interface is not that different. For example, you can usually
compile extensions simply by replacing Numeric/arrayobject.h with
numpy/arrayobject.h
If you don't like things then start suggesting specific improvements at
(e-mail address removed) instead of just ranting on the
python list which most of us don't have the time to read anyway (notice
how late I'm responding to this...)
-Travis
I suppose people must vent, but the truth is that satisfying the
diversity of scientific Python users is *very* hard.
NumPy *is* trying to do something about the confusion between Numeric
and Numarray. I'm sorry you don't like the name, but it was properly
discussed and a host of other names were suggested before settling on
NumPy as the *least bad*.
Yes, it will be confusing for a few months, but then it will probably be
*less* confusing as people realize that NumPy *is* Numeric 3K
The interface is not that different. For example, you can usually
compile extensions simply by replacing Numeric/arrayobject.h with
numpy/arrayobject.h
If you don't like things then start suggesting specific improvements at
(e-mail address removed) instead of just ranting on the
python list which most of us don't have the time to read anyway (notice
how late I'm responding to this...)
-Travis