Python advocacy in scientific computation

[Greg Ewing]

Andy Salnikov wrote:
> I saw lots of awk or sed "code" embedded in scripts

In my experience, embedding any of make/sh/awk/sed in
any of the others is a nightmare of singlequote/
doublequote/backslash juggling that makes a few
tab/space problems in Python pale by comparison.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg