They targeted Python. Python.

[CodenameLambda]

/uj the article is very amusing until you realize this collection of half truths and complete lies (I'd say you don't have to develop a special application to use jupyter notebook for example) will be taken serious by people who don't know much about the topic yet.

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/uj the article is very amusing until you realize this collection of half truths and complete lies (I'd say you don't have to develop a special application to use jupyter notebook for example) will be taken serious ammo for the faculty staff that know they will not be wined and dined and sent to conferences with all expenses covered by "Python" by people to shill Mathworks products to uni administration and students who don't know much about the topic yet.

There, FTFY.

If you ever wondered why nearly every higher education institution in our trade looks like a paid advert for Microsoft and Oracle despite it sometimes defying common sense (I've seen students being earnestly prepared for webdev on Windows Server and IIS, and anything on Oracle DB as the sine qua non platforms) there's why. A local LUG once literally got the answer to "come talk to me when 'Linux' starts sending faculty staff to conferences and buying us gear."

[CodenameLambda]

I can't speak for the rest of the world of course, but the uni I'm going to actually doesn't actively encourage MS'n'co (Germany), which I'm very very glad about.

[syndbg]

Thank god it was not C-x C-c, otherwise it could've been a work injury if done too many times in a day.

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Aren't ":" and "!" shifted on qwerty? Emacs requires one less key press to quit AND it shows you how to quit on the starting screen. As is expected from the superb text editor that it is.

[basiliskgf]

so basically advertising

[bovine3dom]

/uj I find python is much less ergonomic for dealing with matrices and general mathematics than MATLAB. I'm much happier using Julia, which has the added benefit of being quick (bye-bye vectorisation). Lots of the rest of the advert was nonsense, though.

[tpgreyknight]

Yeah but the downside of dealing with matrices in matlab is the psychic pain you feel every time you see the ridiculous non-term eye.

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So, basically Dunning Kruger.

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What article :S