C was my second love after QBasic. I still admire its simplicity, yet also admire the abstraction, readability, and community of Python.
As anyone on Stack Overflow would tell you, it's a matter of using the right tool for the job. I like to imagine programming language selection as an optimization problem: given a job, over the set of tools, maximize the appropriateness of tools for the job while minimizing the number of tools. Without a tool number constraint, you could call from an infinite number of tools, and one would be best, but that incurs overhead, obviously. The tool number constraint keeps the problem feasible.
For numerical computing, {C, Python} solves my optimization problem.
As anyone on Stack Overflow would tell you, it's a matter of using the right tool for the job. I like to imagine programming language selection as an optimization problem: given a job, over the set of tools, maximize the appropriateness of tools for the job while minimizing the number of tools. Without a tool number constraint, you could call from an infinite number of tools, and one would be best, but that incurs overhead, obviously. The tool number constraint keeps the problem feasible.
For numerical computing, {C, Python} solves my optimization problem.