On 3/29/2011 3:00 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Which leads to the real point as to why Python is becoming the leading language for scientific computing, it is a dynamic language for coordinating C/C++/Fortran computations and providing GUI front ends. Performance of Python is thus a side issue since grunt computation is done in languages which are closer to the machine -- with all the crap that entails.
The problem with this is when you're the poor bastard that has to write said C/C++/Fortran code, or when you want to pass complex object graphs between the languages.
