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Comment by kingstnap

14 hours ago

Probably the batteries included Standard Library.

Cross platform interpreter.

NumPy and SciPy really set the stage.

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chuckadams  14 hours ago

It's definitely a better language than Matlab, and Numpy made it actually fast for that purpose. AI research really took advantage of that even before LLMs hit the scene.

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