NumPy/matplotlib make perfect sense for Matlab users (it's basically a port of Matlab semantics). If Matlab were free and didn't suck so much as a general purpo

NumPy/matplotlib make perfect sense for Matlab users (it's basically a port of Matlab semantics). If Matlab were free and didn't suck so much as a general purpose language, I wonder to what extent Python would have been adopted in scientific computing (Matlab is still pretty strong in some communities, to be fair).