Re: [tlug] Fortran --> Python (was linux engineer)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

jrjohansson@example.com writes:
 > >>>>> What Stephen said!

 > > So I'd say that rather than a *move* from FORTRAN to Python, I'd say
 > > that FORTRAN (and of course C/C++) are still in heavy use, but Python
 > > bindings are making heavy-duty computation available to scientists
 > > without much in the way of programming skills.
 > 
 > I agree, except with the comment on programming skills ;-) I think it
 > takes as much programming skills to write good python programs as it
 > takes to write good fortran programs... fortran is not difficult, it's
 > just arcane.

Oh, I know a lot of (non-CIS ;-) scientists with *serious* programming
technique.  What I meant is that with Python it's now *possible* for
scientists without much programming skill to get started on hacking
scientific programming.