Re: Python for Fortran programmers

In article <omqdd3-lrr.ln1@xxxxxxxxx>, I commented:
In article <dt48c0$4nq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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While I agree to some extent, the power of using dynamic
languages like Python and Ruby for "gluing together" systems
of high-level components is quite liberating.
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There's a project: how do we explain to experienced Fortran
implementers the advantages of test-driven "agile" development
with a dynamic (or, sometimes, weakly-typed) language? From
the other side, I think we also lack a succinct essay on the
limitations of Matlab and friends which "real" programming
languages such as Python (or Lisp or Ruby or ...) overcome.

I've faced the former challenge occasionally over the last
twenty-five years, and it feels past time to settle it more
systematically.

And DSLs--there needs to be an explanation of DSLs somewhere in there.
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