On Aug 26, 12:34 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

> > Well, Sage developers like Python, Cython and C while Maxima
> > developers like lisp (at least for the low level stuff) - so we are
> > having self selecting groups here. It is the best tool for the job,
> > but also the devil you know, so I don't see big changes here in the
> > future.
>
> Let me say that I do see big changes here in the future. With Cython,
> it is actually easier to extend Python in C, than to extend Matlab in
> C, especially with the new numpy support in Cython soon.
>
> Yes, I think people will actually stop being scared by extending
> Python in C and porting more C libraries to Python

Are you kidding? Python probably has the most C library extensions out
there for any scripting language I am aware of. Cython makes it
better, but many interface wrappers like Swig have done a stellar
job :)

> Ondrej

Cheers,

Michael
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