perl to python

[Kirk Job-Sluder]

On 2004-05-12, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Kirk Job-Sluder <kirk at eyegor.jobsluder.net> wrote:
>> And here is the fundamental question.  Why should I spend my time
>> writing a module in python to emulate another tool, when I can simply
>> use that other tool?  Why should I, as a resarcher who must process
>> large quantities of data, spend my time and my employer's money
>> reinventing the wheel? 
>
> At the risk of veering this thread in yet another different direction, 
> anybody who does analysis of large amounts of data should take a look at 
> Gary Perlman's excellent, free, and generally under-appreciated |STAT 
> package.
>
> http://www.acm.org/~perlman/stat/
>
> It's been around in one version or another for something like 20 years.  
> It fills an interesting little niche that's part data manipulation and 
> part statistics.


Thanks.  I'll check it out.