From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:08:38 -0500, Charlie Roberts wrote:   
      
   > If I had to write a quick programme now, I guess I will tend to head   
   > towards Fortran!   
      
   If you want something good for “scratchpad” programming (maximum   
   results with just a few quick lines sof code), I would recommend   
   Jupyter notebooks. Built on Python, together with toolkits like NumPy,   
   Pandas, Matplotlib and a bunch of others.   
      
   You know how, back in the day, BASIC was famed for its immediacy? Boot   
   your PC straight into the BASIC ROM: type a line without a line number   
   and it executes at once. Put a line number on the front and it gets   
   added to your program in memory.   
      
   Jupyter gives you that same immediacy, only in a more advanced form --   
   each cell can hold multiple lines of code, and you don’t need line   
   numbers. And you have rich output -- graphics, sound, video -- and   
   also some basic interactive widgets with minimal effort.   
      
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