Thank you very much for all the answers I've got. As far as I have understood, Python can be a good alternative, or, at least, a reasonable choice.
I intend to design new algorithms for a kind of Optimization problems, and then I have to implement them and show/prove that they are good enough, in terms of effectiveness (quality of the solution that the algorithm is able to find, for some given "difficult" problems), and not mainly in terms of efficiency (time to find the solution). I mean, in order to prove that my algorithms are "good", I have to compare them with the results given by other algorithms, in terms of how much better is the solution given by my proposal, in front of the previous ones. Only comparatives in terms of "number of iterations", and not "time to find the solution", can be done (I think). And I also realize, from your posted answers, that the point is doing a good programming work, and that I will have to look very carefully at all those packages and resources you have mentioned, to do a good work at Python. Any other suggestion will be welcomed. :-) Thank you very much again! -- Vicent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
