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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Lex Fridman Podcast
I Love Lists, but It's Not So Problematic, Right?
I find myself appreciating list today much more than I did early, because when I came to programming, I knew programming, but I was a domain expert. So I actually have a much more appreciation of lists and things like closure. And there's high V, which is a Python, you know, a list that compiles the Python bytecode. Yes, people are never going to be programmers for a living. They don't want all this the cuteness in their head. They want just it's why basic,. You know, Microsoft had the right idea with basic in terms of having that be the language of visual basic; they should have converted that to Python 10 years ago or so
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