> its all haskell ideas ported to python land under the covers :) Well, that's not entirely true. It's based on many of the same ideas which underlie some of t

> its all haskell ideas ported to python land under the covers :) Well, that's not entirely true. It's based on many of the same ideas which underlie some of the good Haskell ideas, and have a natural expression in Haskell because it's a type algebra on index spaces. An incomplete list of the inspirations: Paralation Lisp, Merrimac, APL / J / K, Manticore, FORTH, Chapel & ZPL (and VCODE), SISAL, OLAP & MDX, LINQ, various PGAS approaches, etc., etc.