On Oct 2, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> That's a good point!  I have people on a couple of other lists  
> sending me
> advice too.  So far the tendency seems pretty strongly toward Python  
> and
> Django, especially for scientific computing (my main area for computer
> applications).


Mike,

If you're doing scientific computing with Python you might be  
interested in SciPy:

http://www.scipy.org/

I'll add my vote for Python too. It's an excellent language for a wide  
variety of applications.

-Tim

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