[frumiousirc]

Pandas are a reinvention (be it a conscious one or not) of PAW "ntuples" which have been around for at least a quarter of a century. ROOT has further evolved them into "trees" which allow structure beyond simple tables. Both provide a selection language akin to Panda's filtering.

I have nothing against Pandas, but the ebullience that always comes with blog posts about them seems to be ignorant of existing systems used every day in scientific data analysis for the past few decades.

[Jmoir]

Whether they are a reinvention or not, can't I be ebullient about them? I love new technology for example, and I get pretty ebullient about whatever new things there are. It doesn't mean that I'm ignorant of the past that has led up to them and it certainly shouldn't effect my thoughts on them either.