Thanks for the perspective. Sounds pretty familiar. Aside from missing math syntax, Python by itself/packaged can be great -- until it's slow, which leads to t

Thanks for the perspective. Sounds pretty familiar. Aside from missing math syntax, Python by itself/packaged can be great -- until it's slow, which leads to the real problem for me, that compiling mixed Python/C[++] and dependent libraries is just absolutely horrendous on Windows. Unfortunately, Windows is where my users are.