[OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> I'm not sure his summary here is true.  You can do efficient operations 
> over sets of data in Python (actually due to some small tweaks to the 
> language requested by NumPy/Numeric users back around the time of Python 
> 2.1).  So if you do something like "array * 6", it actually does the 
> multiplication of items in the array in C.  They bend Python's "magic 
> methods" quite a bit in NumPy, so things like array access, slicing, and 
> multiplication all avoid actually iterating over the arrays or matrixes 
> in Python.

1. Python's array handling is the subject of an excellent chapter in 
"Beautiful Code". :)

2. I may be wrong, but IIRC NumPy is already installed on the XO by 
default! I forget what depends on it, but I think it's there as a 
dependency.