[Python-Dev] New Developer (original) (raw)

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 02:57:12 CET 2008

Mark Dickinson wrote:

Hello all, I've recently been granted commit privileges; so, following the usual protocol, here's a quick introduction. I'm a mathematician by day; my degree is in number theory, but five summers of Fortran 77 programming and two semesters of teaching numerical analysis have given me a taste for numerics as well. I discovered Python around twelve years ago and found that it fit my brain nicely (even more so after nested namespaces were introduced) and now use it almost daily for a wide variety of tasks. I've been lurking on python-dev for longer than I care to admit to. I also dabble in Haskell and O'Caml.

Very interesting! Are you aware of Sage? http://sagemath.org. All Python-based, developed originally by a number theorist (http://wstein.org), and with a rapidly growing team of developers (including John Cremona, who's contributed a lot of his code to Sage).

The Python-dev team should be proud of the impact Python is having in scientific computing: python is without a doubt the leading tool for open source, high-level scientific codes (i.e. not Fortran/C), and growing. Thanks!

I normally wouldn't announce this here, but please forgive the mini-spam (and let's continue off list if you are interested):

http://wiki.sagemath.org/days8

Just contact me off list at Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu if you think you'd like to attend.

Cheers,

f

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