Pandas [was Kinds of containers]

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 09:11 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> My finance folks also rave about Pandas. I wish I could fork myself to 
> look into it.

Pandas is what makes Python a viable competitor to R. Most data science
people will use one or the other these days. Though some (with budgets) will
use Matlab or Mathematica. 

> Nevertheless, what I'm working on now should help libraries such as 
> Pandas for D. We have a large language but are unclear on recipe-style 
> idioms for writing library code.
> 

Can I suggest that we avoid "should" and ensure that we have more of a
"will".  Instead of a bottom up approach, we perhaps need a top-down
approach: Applications programmers do X, Y, Z, that are best support by data
structures A, B, C, and A, B, and C are realized by library architecture α,
β, γ.


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