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I’m amazed how many people are defending Python. It’s such a kludgy language. I’m curious what the Fortran holdouts said back in the day.
by Xcelerate 6y ago
I’m amazed how many people are defending Python. It’s such a kludgy language. I’m curious what the Fortran holdouts said back in the day.
- eigenspace 6y agoThe better comparison is to Perl. Everyone used to say that there was no way Python could replace Perl because Perl had such a big ecosystem.
- pauljurczak 6y ago> what the Fortran holdouts said back in the day. Fortran holdouts say today that there is still no competition to Fortran for optimizing code in multiprocessing/supercomputing environment and no volunteers to rewrite tons of proven and optimized to the extreme numerical and physics code in another language. Good, old languages die hard...