C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 07:19:21 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> If I'm not wrong, Python has grown up really slowly and 
> quietly, till the recent big success in the scientific field.

Python replaced Perl and to some extent Php... Two very 
questionable languages, which was a good starting-point. C++98 
was a similarly questionable starting-point, but nobody got the 
timing right when that window was open.

The success of Python in scientific computing is to a large 
extent related to C though.