Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?
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@jofr @faraaz I think a huge amount of effort got put into numpy by a few individuals, and that hasn't been replicated elsewhere in a dynamic language intended for general purpose use. That led to many libraries which use numpy, and so on.
Then "the rich get richer". Perl was popular for NLP and bioinformatics for a while, but stagnated and people moved to the best available scientific computing stack. That was Python at the time.