Scientific computing with D

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I use NumPy often for it's interactive capabilities.  Plotting and
> exploring data at the Python prompt.   That's hard to do with a
> compiled language.    A static language like D cannot satisfy that
> kind of use-case easily.  Maybe Sci-MiniD there? :-)

The D compiler is fast enough that this should be quite doable. On my 6 
year old XP machine, compiling and linking a program a few lines long 
takes less than half a second.