On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 07:19:21 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
If I'm not wrong, Python has grown up really slowly and quietly, till the recent big success in the scientific field.
Python replaced Perl and to some extent Php... Two very questionable languages, which was a good starting-point. C++98 was a similarly questionable starting-point, but nobody got the timing right when that window was open.
The success of Python in scientific computing is to a large extent related to C though.
