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> I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 Why? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy "Internally, both

by acqq 8y ago

> I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 Why? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy "Internally, both MATLAB and NumPy rely on BLAS and LAPACK for efficient linear algebra computations." As far as I know BLAS and LAPACK are still based on the decades old FORTRAN code.