Over the past year or so, whenever I talk to anyone involved in the support of researchers who use HPC facilities and the subject of programming comes up, there seems to be a growing consensus. The next generation of scientific programmer is not using Fortran or C/C++. An increasing number of researchers can fulfil their computational needs using Python or MATLAB, or some other packages/high level languages.
From Scripting to Scaling
April 12, 2010