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List:       pypy-dev
Subject:    Re: [pypy-dev] Fwd: Discussion with Guido van Rossum and (hopefully) core python-dev on scientific P
From:       Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-02-14 16:04:29
Message-ID: CAK5idxSWH-w-f6Ufw=ELhoavBhXHzc2hOZfqyojazZ96VoDe_Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Serhat Sevki Dincer <jfcgauss@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will take the liberty to forward this topic on "scientific python"
> to pypy list, since numpy work on pypy has progressed a lot,
> apparently, and it does concern pypy too, i guess..

Note - I know I'm replying to pypy-dev instead of numpy dev on purpose.

We as in PyPy are not very interested in the language design
decisions. In fact it's in our opinion much better to leave the
language decisions to someone else and we'll continue to just improve
performance and other aspects that are language-unrelated. In fact
this is what got pypy to the place where it is right now -
compatibility was a major issue from day 1.

The same applies to numpy - we're committed to making numpy exactly
the same as the original numpy in terms of API without really changing
it, hence we're not that interested in participating in the
discussion.

That said, the only thing we really dislike about language decisions
are changing syntax/semantics to improve performance. We believe
readability should never be sacrificed in favor of performance, but
this is roughly it. We'll happily let other people decide what's the
best syntax for numpy.

Cheers,
fijal
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