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> If researchers wrote directly in C or Fortran... ... then they would get nothing done.

• pklausler 2y ago
  Why not?
  • dunefox 2y ago
    1. data cleaning and other tasks for which Python excels, 2. C and Fortran don't come close to the developer speed of Python. Ideas don't come from using languages like C, but are rather enabled by implementing, prototyping, and iterating quickly and with little resistance from the language, using existing libraries, etc. Python is simply much better in these regards.
• TheRealKing 2y ago
  Fortran cannot be placed with C in the same category of low programming productivity.
• pjmlp 2y ago
  Apparently we could do research work before Python was invented.