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by auntienomen 1688 days ago
I'm not sure I could find sources on the web any more easily than you. (Maybe start by looking at references in David Beazley's old talks?) I was in physics at the time, and what happened there was that Python basically enveloped Fortran & C++, letting people use the existing code without getting bogged down in complicated invocations.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSht_aV7AU is a recent Beazley talk about that era.