Re: [Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0

[Sasha <nd...@ma...>]

"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments,
just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share
each other's programs, bugs included."
     ---  Edsger W.Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?"
18 June 1975

I just miss the good old days ...


On 6/30/06, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...> wrote:
> On 6/30/06, Sasha <nd...@ma...> wrote:
> > On 6/30/06, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Besides, decent unit tests will catch these problems.  We all know
> > > that every scientific code in existence is unit tested to the smallest
> > > routine, so this shouldn't be a problem for anyone.
> >
> > Is this a joke? Did anyone ever measured the coverage of numpy
> > unittests? I would be surprized if it was more than 10%.
>
> Of course it's a joke.  So obviously one for anyone who knows the
> field, that the smiley shouldn't be needed (and yes, I despise
> background laughs on television, too).  Maybe a sad joke, given the
> realities of scientific computing, and maybe a poor joke, but at least
> an attempt at humor.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>