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Learning to program

Posted Apr 26, 2012 3:16 UTC (Thu) by samlh (subscriber, #56788)
In reply to: Learning to program by Cyberax
Parent article: GCC and static analysis

> And serious numeric analysis is now often done with NumPy which is _interpreted_.

Much of NumPy is a thin wrapper around BLAS, linpack, etc. What makes it popular is that it provides an intuitive interface, but the number-crunching is rarely written in Python.


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