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Congratulations to all involved with this paper, an awesome accomplishment for the SciPy community-- pretty wild that it's almost 20 years old.

• timkam 7y ago
  Good that they got a paper in Nature. It's important such accomplishments get rewarded and acknowledged in the traditional academic way. I hope these people pile up citations. The engineers who build the foundations of modern scientific research get far less credit than they deserve.
  • enriquto 7y ago
    Indeed! This publication is very good news, and I am happy that free software acquires such a prominent place in the academic citation space. On the other hand, notice that scipy is in large part an interface. The underlying solvers (e.g., numpy.linalg.solve) are often routines written in Fortran several decades ago, and already duly cited and academically recognized.
    • mattip 7y ago
      There is tremendous value that often goes unrecognised in taking best of brand routines and packaging them so real people can use them, consistently and reliably over decades.
      • enriquto 7y ago
        Sure, that's why people keep doing that: taking the same exact Fortran routine and giving the world access to it from whatever different languages and frameworks are fashionable.
  • jononor 7y ago
    I'm looking forward to the second-order effects of open source scientific software being publishable in "high-impact" publications. It makes it much more attractive for scientists to use and develop open source, benefiting everyone.