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This is some extreme revisionist history here. The scientific Python community and many of the libraries around it go back way before Reddit, YouTube, etc.
by jsjohnst 4y ago
This is some extreme revisionist history here. The scientific Python community and many of the libraries around it go back way before Reddit, YouTube, etc.
- Macha 4y agoSome dates from Wikipedia: Major scientific libraries: - SciPy: "Around 2001" - ipython: 2001 - Matplotlib: 2003 - NumPy: 2006 - Pandas: 2008 Major web libraries: - Zope: 1999 - Twisted Web: 2002 - WSGI: 2003 - Django: 2005 - Pylons: 2005 Applications mentioned: - Eve Online: 2003 - YouTube: 2005 - Reddit: 2005 I don't think this justifies the claim that the web python community was around at the same time as the scientific community while the two were relatively unaware of each of other as "revisionist". It just makes it look like you were in the camp that was aware of the scientific stack and not the web stack.
- jsjohnst 4y ago> web python community was around at the same time as the scientific community while the two were relatively unaware of each of other I didn’t dispute this, please reread what I said again. > It just makes it look like you were in the camp that was aware of the scientific stack and not the web stack. No, actually I’m a web stack Python guy mainly, I just actually know my history.