Using Python for Science: Cygwin versus Native

[Chris Barker]

gb at cs.unc.edu wrote: 
> I'm trying to switch from Matlab to Python + Numeric for my research
> work. The number of choices required is bewildering.

This really sounds to me like you need Linux!

If you really need to interact with Windows apps, you may be able to use
Wine, VMware or Win4Lin.

Linux really is a much better platform for Scientific computing... why
do people put so much effort into making Windows look/act like *nix,
when they could just run *nix??

-Chris


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