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Can you link any source on the python scientific usage in the 90s and early 2000s? I think the dominant language in science at that time was a mishmash of MATLA
by z3phyr 5y ago
Can you link any source on the python scientific usage in the 90s and early 2000s? I think the dominant language in science at that time was a mishmash of MATLAB, Java, C++, FORTRAN and Perl (In Biology at least, perl was the goto glue language due to its excellent string processing capabilities)
- auntienomen 5y agoI'm not sure I could find sources on the web any more easily than you. (Maybe start by looking at references in David Beazley's old talks?) I was in physics at the time, and what happened there was that Python basically enveloped Fortran & C++, letting people use the existing code without getting bogged down in complicated invocations.
- eesmith 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSht_aV7AU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSht_aV7AU is a recent Beazley talk about that era.
- _ugfj 5y agohttps://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822400 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822400 I can attest to Python usage in physics exploding after this. What Livermore says, you listen to. They were considered the best of best, after all. An unknown student making an unknown library, no one cares. But when Livermore says, hey guys, Numeric is interesting, you listen. Things rolled from there.
- pjmlp 5y agoHere CERN usage of Python during those early 2000s. https://lhcb-comp.web.cern.ch/support/CMT/cmt.htm https://lhcb-comp.web.cern.ch/support/CMT/cmt.htm https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/lhc-computing-grid-goes-online https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/lhc-computing-grid... https://cds.cern.ch/record/840543/files/lhcc-2005-024.pdf https://cds.cern.ch/record/840543/files/lhcc-2005-024.pdf