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Ask HN: Does the FORTRAN issue also affect Numpy/Scipy for Python?

Yes, this will impact Numpy/Scipy as much as R, as they depend on many of the same linear algebra libraries.

Edit: actually, looks like I'm wrong emghost appears to know more about this than me.

Some of the NaN-handling issues are unique, but the compiler availability itself is still a problem.

Since then, GCC has stepped up with this out-of-tree build, but it's still not 100% to my knowledge.