Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Remembering that I, J, K, L, M, and N were integer was trivial if you
> came from a math background.  And, of course, Fortran was all about
> math, so that was natural.  Those letters are commonly used for integers
> in formulae.  If I write $ x sub i $, anybody who knows math would
> immediately assume that the range of x was reals and the range of i was
> integers.

When I studied maths, x and y were reals, and i wasn't. But it wasn't
integer either... :)

Chris Angelico