[SciPy-user] python (against java) advocacy for scientific projects

[Matthieu Brucher]

2009/1/19 Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no>:
> On 1/19/2009 9:33 PM, Marko Loparic wrote:
>
>> Specifically on this point, playing the devil's advocate, one could
>> argue that using java we could also migrate the offending routine to
>> C. Is there an element to argue that the Python/C mix is simpler or
>> more powerful than the same for java/C?
>
> You can use JNI with Java, and obtain the same effect. But as a 'glue
> language' Java is inferior to Python (i.e. Java is more verbose, and
> statically typed). And Java has shortcomings for scientific computing,
> such as no operator overloading and no complex number primitive. This is
> why projects like NumPy would not be possible with Java.

And data must be copied between the JVM and the C code.

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