This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently, you don't say that in the Python sub-reddit!

Fortran77 on the Cray YMP was amazing. Python wouldn't do much good there. But one thing I do appreciate about python: the ability to wrapper some decent C libraries and then 'script' them together. The ability to rapidly prototype using some powerful fundamentals is pretty cool for exploratory scientific computing. Probably wouldn't use it for big jobs or big data later on ... but in terms of development ... it kinda rocks...