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NumPy’s direct predecessor Numeric was released in 1995.

• beagle3 6y ago
  ... and then in 2001 or so, numarray came about and was supposed to be better - but instead it sort of split the community and wasted resources. Then Travis started Numpy which somehow magically was backward compatible with both numeric and numarray - and managed to get the community united again.
• hoytech 6y ago
  I didn't know that, thanks! It looks like these ideas were being tried in perl and python roughly in parallel.