Python advocacy in scientific computation

[tooper]

Maybe I'd also emphasize the nice COM interface that allow your wrapped
Fortran to be made available in your Excel macros in a snap. It happens
that Fortran programmers/users tends to be poor Office users except for
Excel which they master at unbelievable level...
My own best low work/high user satisfaction ever is just this, wrap
LOWTRAN call to make is usable from Excel, a 1/2h work and a 100+ users
2 days later !