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Science has been benefiting from open source for quite a while now?

• 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y ago
  Good hypothesis.
• jychang 13y ago
  Yeah, I'm not sure what this is saying. Python has been the lingua franca of choice for most sciencey things for a while now.
  • ovis 13y ago
    I wish that were true. I'm sure it depends on the field, but in my experience (more physics/natural science), MATLAB still leads for interactive scientific programming. I think Python is at this point recognized as a legitimate alternative, rather than the lingua franca.
  • dpeck 13y ago
    Seems like Python has been gaining a lot of ground in areas formerly ruled by Fortran. A lot of those folks made forays into Java and Python seems like a breath of fresh air to a lot of the academics I know.
• aaron-lebo 13y ago
  In some sense science was the originator of open source in the way of "here are my findings and data, debunk or improve on them if you can". I have to think a large part of the open source ethos comes from the academic setting at MIT and other institutions.