bigint <-> python long

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 00:58 +0200, bearophile wrote:
[…]
> If you support NumPy well and efficiently through Pyd, I think 
> some people will start using the D language just for this :-)
> 
> NumPy is good but it usually forces you to program vectorially, 
> like Matlab. Sometimes this is not nice, so people write some 
> routines in Fortran, C, etc. With Pyd some scientific programmers 
> maybe will want to use D instead.

The idea of a Python/NumPy/D combination, especially if connected to
OpenCL does have great appeal. NumPy and D for computation and Python
for data visualization and coordination would be an improvement over the
currently canonical Python/NumPy/C/C++/Fortran. But there is a large
inertia to the system that has built up in the bioinformatics and HEP
communities.
-- 
Russel.
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