On May 7, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Robert Miller wrote:

> One reaction I had was to "instead of an obscure language designed for
> mathematics." ...designed for, maybe a particular mathematics program,
> or... there's something kind of pejorative about the way the word
> mathematics fits in there... And there are still critics out there who
> might say Python was such (although, to hell with 'em).

I'll second this, but I think it is a point that needs to be  
forcefully made. Perhaps "...instead of an obscure language designed  
only for mathematics"


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