suitability of python

[alex23]

Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> This lead to Numerical Python, now Numpy, SciPy, and later Sage and
> other scientific and Python packages. I believe SciPy has an f2py
> (fortran to py) module to help with running Fortran under Python (but it
> has been years since I read the details).

Andrew Dalke recently did some work on f2pypy, as a step toward
running Fortran under PyPy:

http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2011/11/09/f2pypy.html

If PyPy's Numpy support was more advanced, I'd probably recommend the
OP start there.