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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Using Python to Solve Complex Problems

python was good at string manipulation and objects obviously but arrays of numbers were not very efficient. The Hubble space telescope people in baltimore were somehow big python fans in the late 90s. People who had an idea for an important new fundamental library decided oh python is actually already known to our users so let's use python as the user interface i think that's how tensor flow ended up with python as the User Interface.

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