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
