Scipy, Numpy, and NLTK. It also came out 4 years earlier and even then Ruby took a bit longer than 1995 to make it's way from Japan to the US. [1] Relevant c

Scipy, Numpy, and NLTK. It also came out 4 years earlier and even then Ruby took a bit longer than 1995 to make it's way from Japan to the US. [1] Relevant conversation on Quora. I agree with the main points: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-preferred-to-Ruby-in-academia