I definitely think things like the infrastructure don't get enough credit. I also mean no criticism of numpy. But is Numpy per se conceptually that innovative,

I definitely think things like the infrastructure don't get enough credit. I also mean no criticism of numpy. But is Numpy per se conceptually that innovative, from a computer science perspective? I guess to me this just seemed unusually introductory, about a specific library for a specific language. Put another way: if I was going to cite numpy, would I cite this? Probably not. Would I cite this paper for any of the more general concepts it covers? Probably not. I'd probably even argue someone shouldn't cite it for that latter reason, as those concepts supercede numpy (and appear in other languages under other names).