Given the amount of discussion here, I'm starting to think maybe each of the lines on the comparison page (http://www.scipy.org/NumPyProConPage) should be a link to a whole page of discussion just about that particular issue. --bb On 9/29/06, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:
Something nobody has mentioned before for pros for numpy is integration with C code: this is really clumsy in matlab, and it works great with python (ctypes, swig, boost, pyrex are all great tools for that, depending on what you want to do).
It is on the web page that started the discussion: "very easy to extend in C/C++ or Fortran"
But I agree. It's nicer with python/numpy. Both extending with C/C++ and embedding in C/C++. I think I would say "easy" rather than "very easy", but that quibbling... :-)
--bb