This may be a liiiitle bit off-topic, but I really need to get it off my chest: Python for high-performance scientific computer works <i>beautifully</i>... it&#x27;s a dream. Scipy&#x2F;numpy, matplotlib, pandas, ipython. They&#x27;re all unbelievably awesome. It all just works.<p><i>Except</i>, when you&#x27;re on Windows, and it just doesn&#x27;t. Just installing things and doing the &#x27;hello world&#x27; for aforementioned libraries is laughably impossible.<p>So, use Python, but use it only on Linux.<p>(Okay, if you absolutely must do it in Windows: Use Anaconda).