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by cabinpark 4109 days ago
In all my time working in scientific computing and talking with others, I only know of one case.

The huge amount of libraries for Python, C, C++, and Fortran make them the obvious choice.

Plus functional programming paradigms aren't always the best to do scientific programming. It can be done, but it's really not the right tool for the job, in most cases.