&gt;Though Python has been making a lot of inroads<p>I weep to think of of all the cycles wasted on expensive tax payer funded hardware due to using Python over much faster Intel Fortran. We are talking like orders of magnitude.<p>I once ported a fellow undergrads astronomy program from Python to C+CUDA and it ran on their personal workstation in less than a day, when it had been using the department cluster for a week before :&#x2F;<p>People often hate on Fortran because its old and creeky when it often as fast or faster than C...