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Python is popular, because it's simple, and it's great as a glue language. The simplicity made it the language of choice for beginner's computer science courses
by Kwpolska 2y ago
Python is popular, because it's simple, and it's great as a glue language. The simplicity made it the language of choice for beginner's computer science courses at universities and schools. The glue language qualities led to numpy/scipy/et al., and that led to Python's popularity when AI/ML/data science became popular.
How much of the PSF's 2023 outreach budget was spent on those? How many universities were given money or otherwise convinced to redesign their curriculum using Python? Did it go to numpy?