I'm going through a bit of this myself.
What I've found useful is downloading the source to Python and comparing
modules that I use a lot that are written in C (in my case datetime) and see how
they are coded. Also, if I am thinking of using a C API function to do
something, I grep or us
> I believe the applicability of Python and related techniques to
> process control, engineering programming, and so on, is vastly
> under-appreciated. Conventional wisdom in these domains sees
> Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Fortran as suitable vehicles.
> You've seen how limiting this is.
>
> Fo
