Just why did people start using Python anyway?

Re:Just why did people start using Python anyway? by DaniFong on Thursday October 09, 2008 @04:45AM (#327635)

I'll point out that it is for this exact reason that we're using Fortress: for scientific code, it's so much more readable it's amazing.

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Re:Just why did people start using Python anyway? by prakash on Thursday October 09, 2008 @08:24AM (#327734)

So, Chapel. Erlang, CUDA, etc. aren't as readable as Fortress?

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Re:Just why did people start using Python anyway? by DaniFong on Thursday October 09, 2008 @01:54PM (#328071)

Yes. The baked in use of units is incredibly helpful (best use of any static typing I've seen, I tell you), but the biggest thing is that the LaTeX formatting and larger character set allows code to look like what it does. The code and the formulas look like the very same thing because they are the same thing.

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