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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by gaius on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:06PM (#15250744)
Python has super-easy bindings to C too, that's another reason it's popular in scientific computing
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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by msla on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:57PM (#15252454)
And because it has bindings to C, it has bindings to a lot of other languages traditionally compiled to machine language, such as Fortran and C++, making SciPy possible, because that optionally depends on LAPACK, which is written in Fortran.

https://www.scipy.org/scipylib/building/linux.html

Of course, the people who just install and run SciPy don't need to know that, but the fact Python has a nice C FFI means it can run literally decades' worth of software across a fair number of languages.

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