Pandas like features

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 26 October 2020 at 01:55:46 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Monday, 26 October 2020 at 01:42:42 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>
>> I have no issue with calling libraries from other languages 
>> (particularly C) if it's something that is too much work or 
>> whatever to do myself. But I think that it's helpful to have a 
>> base level of functionality, akin to Numpy/Scipy, that a new 
>> person could come in to accomplish a lot.
>
> Aren't numpy and scipy themselves largely built on "calling 
> libraries from other languages"? Specifically, C and Fortran.

Exactly. And R (actually S at that time) started as a glue 
language for libraries in those languages.