I disagree strongly with this. Numerical facilities should not be in the stdlib, they should be in the language itself, without need to "import" anything. I can create strings and dictionaries without any imports. I should be able to create a multidimensional array of floats, and perform natural operations with it (like matrix multiplication) without importing anything.
As per the dictionaries in Fortran, there are libraries for that. But I think that not having complex data structures in Fortran is a feature, not a bug. If you actually need these data structures, many Fortran programmers will tell you to just use a different language. You'll never hear such a plainly honest answer from Python programmers; they'll tell you instead to use bizarre libraries with unnatural interfaces, and you'll be forced to multiply matrices using a function "numpy.dot" or an ugly operator "@".
I disagree strongly with this. Numerical facilities should not be in the stdlib, they should be in the language itself, without need to "import" anything. I can create strings and dictionaries without any imports. I should be able to create a multidimensional array of floats, and perform natural operations with it (like matrix multiplication) without importing anything.
As per the dictionaries in Fortran, there are libraries for that. But I think that not having complex data structures in Fortran is a feature, not a bug. If you actually need these data structures, many Fortran programmers will tell you to just use a different language. You'll never hear such a plainly honest answer from Python programmers; they'll tell you instead to use bizarre libraries with unnatural interfaces, and you'll be forced to multiply matrices using a function "numpy.dot" or an ugly operator "@".