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It was relatively easy to lash Python as a higher-level orchestration layer to popular number crunching libraries, yielding NumPy and similar, which made Python
by bitwize 2y ago
It was relatively easy to lash Python as a higher-level orchestration layer to popular number crunching libraries, yielding NumPy and similar, which made Python popular for machine learning applications.
If you're used to Scheme, Common Lisp, or Haskell, Python's arbitrary decisions about e.g. lambda or how scopes work may be grating. But Python is the BASIC of the modern day, and people laughed at BASIC in the 80s too... except businesses ran on BASIC code and fortunes had been made from it.