Fortran vs Python - Newbie Question

[Jaap Spies]

Mark Morss wrote:

> 
> Maybe somebody reading this will be able to convince me to look again
> at Numpy/Scipy, but for the time being I will continue to do my
> serious numerical computation in Fortran.
> 

What I am missing in this discussion is a link to Pyrex to speed up
Python: Pyrex is almost Python with the speed of compiled C.
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/

Pyrex is adapted in SAGE (Software for Algebra and Geometry 
Experimentation) as Sagex: http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/

Jaap