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The international language of science 200 years ago was Latin. This wasn’t because it had any great virtue. It was a historical accident.

Similarly, we are having this discussion in English. Another historical accident. This is hardly a perfect choice, but other choice would exclude more people than English does.

For common effort, you choose the common language. Once, in technical computing, this was Fortran, Back a few decades I wrote a lot of Fortran although it was not my favorite language. I was, however, building on other people’s work, and they on mine: Fortran was the only sensible choice.

What is it these days? Well, I know a lot of people who use a lot of different languages, but the one that a majority can use effectively is Python. People who prefer obscure languages like IDL can also use Python. People who prefer C++ can do it, too. Heck, even people who think Clojure is the greatest ever language for the cool people can get work done in Python.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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