On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 8/30/13 3:41 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> True regarding Matlab -- in fact, it is already very hard for the >> scientific python community to get traction against Matlab at the >> University level, though I'm very impressed with the progress they >> have made so far. And since we're talking about foundations and >> their money here, it's worth pointing out that the situation regarding >> numerical computing is different -- indeed, the Sloane Foundation >> recently put very substantial monetary support behind development of >> the scientific Python stack (organized around IPython), which is >> really awesome. > > > And not just Sloan. Travis Oliphant et. al. got the $3 million DARPA grant > for moving forward the scientific python stack: > http://www.continuum.io/press/continuum-receives-darpa-xdata-funding > > Jason
Yes, indeed, scientific computing using Python has a very bright future! William > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
