As a scientific programmer, I like python because I'm used to it, because there are a wealth of useful libraries and packages that suit my needs, and that it ca

As a scientific programmer, I like python because I'm used to it, because there are a wealth of useful libraries and packages that suit my needs, and that it can be "fast" (if you know how to take advantage of the underlying c code and use numpy whenever possible; and the obvious fast-prototyping advantage over compiled languages). I don't have much experience with Ruby so this is by no means a diss of the language. Its just why I have stuck with it for so long