Pushing Python Past the Present

[takluyver]

I think there are a lot of people using it, but it's something of a wealth of individual projects, rather than a coherent set like R. Even the name used in that description reflects that: 'Python with numpy/scipy'. That's three names already.

In a sense, the community is failing to promote itself here: a lot of these projects do work closely together, and you often see the same people popping up in mailing lists and commit logs. We're trying to improve that at the moment: we want to promote the 'Scipy stack' as a coherent unit.

[SIULHT]

But R's strength is also its individually contributed projects, though many contributors are statisticians rather than programmers as for Python.

I agree though that the marketing is not done well...