Scientific computing is dominated by low-level or system languages like Fortran, C, and C++; and by domain-specific languages like Matlab and R. There is no go

Scientific computing is dominated by low-level or system languages like Fortran, C, and C++; and by domain-specific languages like Matlab and R. There is no good high-level, GENERAL computing language that can do scientific computing well. This leads to a huge gap between "research" and "production" implementations. Python stands to shine in this space if things are done right. pandas is a gem of a library.