On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:30:13PM +0800, Favas, Mark (EM, Floreat) wrote: > Speaking as a research scientist with my computational > chemistry/visualization hat down around my ears, I'd certainly welcome such > operators, as would a couple of my colleagues to whom I introduced Python. > One was a heavy user of Sather until the steam went out of it, then C++ for > a time, now Python+NumPy - and loving it! A set of matrix operators would > expand Python's sphere of use - scientists process numbers as well as > text... We can always gain new users by adding domain-specific operators. Take that to the extreme, though, and you'll have a mess of complicated operators that don't create a unified whole, that don't work well across various types, and are hard to understand for the majority of users. What then? Well, you *lose* users. Gain the domain-specific, lose the rest. New users are great. Adding complexity to gain them is counter-productive from a longer term viewpoint. Cheers, -g p.s. and allowing user-programmable syntax? you're truly kidding, right? -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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