Python advocacy in scientific computation

[David M. Cooke]

Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:

> sturlamolden wrote:
>
>> 5. Versioning control? For each program there is only one developer and
>> a single or a handful users.
>
> I used to think like that up until two seconds before I entered this gem:
>
>   $ rm `find . -name "*.pyc"`
>
> Okay, I didn't type it exactly like that; I was missing one character. I'll let
> you guess which.

I did that once. I ended up having to update decompyle to run with
Python 2.4 :-) Lost comments and stuff, but the code came out great.

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