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[dsimcha]

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.