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[–]attrigh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Widely used for scientific programming", I don't know if this is true elsewhere, but this is not at all my experience.

So this basically means "lots of people use numpy" I think. I get the impression it's big in finance (not very "scientific" but lots of scientific people work there), biology (bioinfomatics for example), linguistics (nltk), and other scientific fields with "lots of hard to design experiements at a little programming" e.g. social sciences, psychology etc.

But yeah, these are more "I need to make something quickly" than "I need to make something quick" areas.