Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by _fdsfs12123 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:33PM
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Funny story:
When I took an "intro to programming for scientists" type course in early 2010s, it was taught in Ruby. This was at the height of ROR's popularity, and the instructor must have been curious about Ruby.
So Ruby became my first language, and for a year after taking the course I did all my scripting in Ruby. There was nobody around me (a lab full of C and Fortran coders) to tell me otherwise. Eventually, I switched to... MATLAB, and a couple years later to Python.
And in 2023, I don't remember a lick of Ruby. But I remember it was fun to code in it.
When I took an "intro to programming for scientists" type course in early 2010s, it was taught in Ruby. This was at the height of ROR's popularity, and the instructor must have been curious about Ruby.
So Ruby became my first language, and for a year after taking the course I did all my scripting in Ruby. There was nobody around me (a lab full of C and Fortran coders) to tell me otherwise. Eventually, I switched to... MATLAB, and a couple years later to Python.
And in 2023, I don't remember a lick of Ruby. But I remember it was fun to code in it.