Maybe that's just what is going on? He is rolling his own for what ever reason and decided to release it. Python is used pretty heavily in science, having taken

Maybe that's just what is going on? He is rolling his own for what ever reason and decided to release it. Python is used pretty heavily in science, having taken the place of Perl as language of choice. Doing science can produce massive data sets that often need heavy and complex processing. I'm a short walk from an university with a Linux cluster for crunching astronomical data for example. Lots of signal analysis goes on there.