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Claiming that using wrapped libraries written in another programming language (LAPACK, anyone?) is an inauthentic usage of the language (here, Python) is pedantic and unhelpful. C is just a wrapper for assembly, then, right?


Sometimes it's not - sometimes LAPACK is written in C. Sometimes your C is just a wrapper around FORTRAN and people should take this fact seriously: modern FORTRAN is often a better option than C for numerical workloads.


I never stated what language LAPACK was written in.


Then what was "C is just a wrapper for assembly, then, right?" supposed to mean?


Drawing a parallel!


What's the parallel? Python wrapping a C library is very different from C compiling down to assembly (which is often not even how C is compiled).




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