Fernando Perez - scientific programming in Python

- Python won't make you a better programmer, but won't keep you from becoming one
- More to scientific software than arrays:
	- Complex data structures, high abstraction, mixed data
	- Interact with external systems (web, hardware, ...)

- Python is simple and powerful (expressive!)
	- Write code that reads like the science you care about

- Interactive
- Many code styles possible (scripting, procedural, oo, functional)
- Reuse existing code

- Dynamically generate code to be weave.inline'd.