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How Python Reached a Los Alamos Supercomputer

David Beazley · Talk · YouTube title: Keynote: Begin...End?
Why it's here

Cited in threads about Python's rise as a first-hand, entertaining account of why it won in scientific computing.

What it covers

David Beazley's PyData Global 2021 keynote, an oral history of early scientific Python. He tells how Python ended up running on a Connection Machine supercomputer at Los Alamos.