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> * Ruby was created as a personal, hobby project; Python was created while Guido worked in research institutions, and it helped Python gain recognition in acad
by skywal_l 4y ago
> * Ruby was created as a personal, hobby project; Python was created while Guido worked in research institutions, and it helped Python gain recognition in academia environment
As a data point, I remember interviewing for an internship in a research institution doing some work on medical images around 2002/2003 and the supervisor telling me that Python was the lingua franca in this domain (from a research and POC development perspective).
- pjmlp 4y agoWhile I was at CERN during early 2000's, it was already being used for the build tooling and package management of HLT. Trainings for getting Python skills were a common offering.
- 4m1rk 4y agoThese explain why Python is the defacto for AI/ML which is interesting but I still totally agree with the idea of Python's simplicity making it just a better choice to get things done. I had a journey from Scala, a compile-time type-safe, flexible and exciting language to Python a dynamic, simple and boring one. Python code just end up being done fast and clean. Scala one never gets the team consensus and is never consistent.