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I'm totally a fan of educational work aimed at a subset of programmers. And I myself went from Python to NumPy. This would have been great if it was around when

I'm totally a fan of educational work aimed at a subset of programmers. And I myself went from Python to NumPy. This would have been great if it was around when I was working with SciPy stuff. That said, I think a NumPy to Python, or really any big package or framework to Python (e.g. Django to Python) is the normal progression these days. People seem to learn the language through a package and end up with some misleading inferences. Again, I don't intend to diminish the article, I just see the opposite progression so much I figured I'd comment on it.

dragonwriter 4y ago
> That said, I think a NumPy to Python, or really any big package or framework to Python (e.g. Django to Python) is the normal progression these days. It always has been common from the time Python had popular domain-focussed libraries that could be used without deep knowledge of the rest of the language, but once you get there you also tend to move out to other specialized packages.