Nicely done. But now for a couple of small nits:
> other language is that they are suddenly dramatically several times > more productive 'suddenly dramatically several times' seems a bit redundantly repeditively excessive, don't you think? > Among the Python components and Python bindings of special interest to > scientists are the elegant and powerful matplotlib plotting package, > which began by emulating and now surpasses the plotting features of > Matlab, SWIG, which allows for runtime interoperability with various > languages, f2py which specifically interoperates with Fortran, NetCDF > libraries (which cope with NetCDF files with dramatically less fuss > than the standard C or Fortran bindings), statistics packages including > bindings to the R language, linear algebra packages, various > platform-specific and portable GUI libraries, genetic algorithms, > optimization libraries, and bindings for high performance differential > equation solvers (notably, using the Argonne National Laboratory > package PetSC). As the length of the sentence built up, and the inumerable commas passed by, my brain exploded. I'd suggest turning this into a bullet list. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list