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> ...not to mention the scipy library that contains leagues of the famous fortran codes... This doesn't actually make Python an alternative to Fortran, though
by solidsnack9000 9y ago
> ...not to mention the scipy library that contains leagues of the famous fortran codes...
This doesn't actually make Python an alternative to Fortran, though -- what it's saying is that no one writes the performant code in Python.
- noobermin 9y agoIndeed! But stuff like parsing input files and plotting are tons easier to code in Python than in Fortran. The point is the performant parts are not in Python, but the parts we don't want the difficult baggage can be written in a much easier and kinder language like Python.