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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.
by 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 agoI 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 agoSeems 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.