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Difficulties in programming the code supercomputers run on is becoming one of the biggest productivity killers of engineering and scientific discovery, according to a new survey from the Simon ...

The rapid growth in popularity of Python as a programming language for mathematics, science, and engineering applications has been amazing. Not only is it easy to learn, but there is a vast treasure ...

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code.

An article by that title over at GigaOM has gotten a lot of attention on the interwebs over the past couple weeks, so I hereby present you with a link to said article, plus an excerpt to keep you warm ...