On: Only fast languages are interesting

[rbanffy]

> I certainly wouldn't do is attempt to write a physics simulation in python, "idiomatic" or not.

http://numpy.scipy.org/

Life can be good.

[probably → rbanffy]

But that's the thing - I would argue that NumPy code is not "idiomatic" Python which uses built-in operations/structures, like list comprehensions, tuples, and dictionaries. I had a similar experience during extensive NumPy coding where I thought, why am I not just writing this in Fortran.