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		cyberax on May 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lua: The Little Language That Could Python is as much a "scientific computing language" as anything, and it's zero-based.

goatlover on May 29, 2023 | [–]

Not really, the core language is general purpose. It's Python's scientific libraries and ecosystem which became popular.

da39a3ee on May 29, 2023 | [–]

You haven’t shown how it’s “very annoying” in R, Fortran, and Julia.

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