[Numpy-discussion] Meta: too many numerical libraries doing the same thing?

[Travis Oliphant]

> In a sentence: the most important reason for using a C++ object oriented
> multi-dimensional array package would be easy of use, not speed.
>
> It's nice to hear Blitz++ was considered, it was proably rejected for
> good reason, but it just looked very promising to me.

I believe that Eric's "compiler" module included in SciPy uses Blitz++ to
optimize Numeric expressions.  You have others who also share your
admiration of Blitz++

-Travis