David Cournapeau wrote:
It is a bit odd to dismiss "python is slow" by saying that you can extend it with fortran. One of the most significant point of python IMO is its readability, even for people not familiar with it, and that's important when doing scientific work. Relying on a lot of compiled libraries goes against it.
If it were necessary to write a new compiled library every time you wanted to solve a new problem, that would be true. But it's not like that if you pick the right libraries. NumPy, for example, is *extremely* flexible. Someone put in the effort, once, to write it and make it fast -- and now an endless variety of programs can be written very easily in Python to make use of it. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
