The homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages’ lunch

[citation needed] and after the citation, some ice cream would be nice Menu and widgets Over the past two years, my scientific computing toolbox been steadily homogenizing. Around 2010 or 2011, my toolbox looked something like this: Ruby for text processing and miscellaneous scripting; Ruby on Rails/JavaScript for web development; Python/Numpy (mostly) and MATLAB (occasionally) for numerical compu

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「科学計算における均質化、あるいはなぜPythonが着実に他言語のシェアを奪っているか」http://chezou.wordpress.com

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Pythonが何故科学計算で一人勝ちしているのか。NumPy/SciPyを中心としたエコシステムの充実、特にscikit-learnとpandas,statsmodelsのおかげ。認知のスイッチコストも減るし、データの変換コストもなくなる