Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.2069.1306324514.9059.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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... :)

I was talking of i in the context of a variable, not as a constant.  If 
I write $ 3 + 7i $ in one place and $ x sub i $ in another, most people 
will figure out from the context which is which.