Outside of the core language of a glue for a bunch of numerical routines and stuff to plot them, it's a Frankenstein's monster. You never know if the script yo

Outside of the core language of a glue for a bunch of numerical routines and stuff to plot them, it's a Frankenstein's monster. You never know if the script you send someone will work right, because everyone has different toolbox options, and everything is in the global namespace. It has some OOP features bolted on to it, but it always looked worse than Perl5. The core language is straight out of the mid-80s. The only real upgrade it got was it can finally broadcast matrix dimensions. Before that, you had people trying to 'vectorize' their code with 'repmat'. Despite all of its shortcomings, especially with packaging, I'll take scientific python over that any day.