> And I sometimes wonder why. David Beazley talks about this in a YouTube video somewhere. (Can't find it right now, maybe someone will in the comments.) It

> And I sometimes wonder why. David Beazley talks about this in a YouTube video somewhere. (Can't find it right now, maybe someone will in the comments.) It was a lot of serendipity. Python was up and running when the US national labs wanted to collaborate and their tools all sucked. Since they wanted visualization this left only Tcl/Tk or Python/Tk. And Beazley was hanging around as a grad student in a national lab with a connection machine, no real boss, no real oversight, and very little budget. He built stuff out of Python, and it snowballed to other labs. (Found it: see jasode's response) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riuyDEHxeEo&t=1804s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riuyDEHxeEo&t=1804s