The Future of Python in Science Keynote at EuroSciPy2010 [pdf] (dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr)

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cing 16y ago ↗

It's worth mentioning the accompanying blog post too: http://khinsen.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/euroscipy-2010/

carterschonwald 16y ago ↗

and its also worth noting that scribd links are now html5! (yay!)

cageface 16y ago ↗

Konrad Hinsen is one of the main Clojure hackers. I wonder how he splits his affections between the two languages.

khinsen 16y ago ↗

I don't think I am among the "main" ones, but to answer your question: Python is what I use for doing research, Clojure is what I look at because there are lots of good ideas in it. BTW, I also follow some Haskell developments, in particular DPH.

carterschonwald 16y ago ↗

Pay close attention to the final few slides, they seem to outline a proposal for a set of changes that I think can be best described as "add strict variants of the various parallel/concurrent computing primitives haskell has to python (plus side effects tracking) so we can have python be natively good for HPC applications in the future"