Is Python popular *because* it is slow?

I’ve been using Python with numeric/numarray/numpy and SWIG since the spring of 2002 for data analysis. The first application I used it for is the OOF holography software. The transition to Python was from tcl with hand-written bindings to C/C++ code. Read more

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One of the most complicated concepts to wrap our heads around has to be recursion; to understand it well it always helps to have some sort of recursion visualization. In this essay, we build a super-simple yet effective visualizer for recursive functions ... (more…)

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