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As a scientist who teaches Python to other scientists in the summers, I wonder if what we instead need to do is just get a sufficient mass of new Python 3 progr
by rflrob 14y ago
As a scientist who teaches Python to other scientists in the summers, I wonder if what we instead need to do is just get a sufficient mass of new Python 3 programmers, and let them drag the rest over. Many fields long ago accepted that programming is a vital skill, but that's only recently been true in biology (if it even is true yet), so there's a lot more people who will be learning in the next few years, as compared to, for instance, astrophysics.
- ajdecon 14y agoDownside: those new Python 3 scientists will be unable to use the Python 2 libraries which already exist in their domains, so they'll all end up re-implemented poorly...