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I think that IPython is one of the best tools for scientists. Jupyter Notebooks that allow reproducible results, a lot of data-wrangling libraries, visualizatio
by open_bear 10y ago
I think that IPython is one of the best tools for scientists. Jupyter Notebooks that allow reproducible results, a lot of data-wrangling libraries, visualizations, distributed computing. I wish more scientists knew of IPython.
- svwobwbou 10y agoyes - and the thing that makes python approachable is the syntax and standard formatting. I love LISP, I'm not confused or annoyed by the parens, but many people are. LISP would be more popular if there was a good (browser-based) hybrid structural editor with the keyboard-navigation familiarity of a text editor, in a notebook format where the LISP code is displayed like Python (the parens hidden, and handled automatically, but serialized as normal LISP code behind the scenes). This is not that hard to do, and we're nearly there: * http://gorilla-repl.org/ http://gorilla-repl.org/ * https://github.com/kovasb/session https://github.com/kovasb/session (Also my own early abandoned experiments: http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo/ http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo/ http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo/public/ http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo/public/ http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo-dom/ http://celeriac.net/iiiiioiooooo-dom/ http://celeriac.net/io/public/ http://celeriac.net/io/public/)
- greggyb 10y agoSee Wisp Scheme: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html It doesn't address the browser-based point.
- open_bear 10y agoGorillaREPL is very nice. There is also a Proto-REPL that looks very promising (https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl)