Hey, without going into details I have contributed a fair amount of code to R. Scipy (and the whole Python numerical computation stack) has nontrivial competit

Hey, without going into details I have contributed a fair amount of code to R. Scipy (and the whole Python numerical computation stack) has nontrivial competition out there and here's what it needs to do to compete...if its developers care about adoption, which most do. Definitely not saying scipy == crap, just that for stats/machine learning (which is a big percentage of a lot of applications today) it is not mature.