Perhaps that's because I'm a programmer, and Python is a general purpose programming language.
Exactly. You shouldn't have to be a programmer to do statistics. Just like you shouldn't have to be a network engineer to share files. What if DropBox had stuff in there about http, ports, levels of service, bandwidth, etc... You'd probably say, "Great! I always wnated to specify that DropBox use SSL4.7 draft B over CDMA EvoX.1 -- who wouldn't?"
When you're doing a DSL make it is as simple as possible. And if you have time, in v2, give it hooks to just break out and do crazy stuff... but the 90% case should be simple as pi.
Exactly. You shouldn't have to be a programmer to do statistics. Just like you shouldn't have to be a network engineer to share files. What if DropBox had stuff in there about http, ports, levels of service, bandwidth, etc... You'd probably say, "Great! I always wnated to specify that DropBox use SSL4.7 draft B over CDMA EvoX.1 -- who wouldn't?"
When you're doing a DSL make it is as simple as possible. And if you have time, in v2, give it hooks to just break out and do crazy stuff... but the 90% case should be simple as pi.