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> unless you need to do numerical work (numpy/scypy) or data work (Pandas & Matplotlib)

Perl has libraries for numerical/science stuff too. :)

http://pdl.perl.org

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GSL

http://bioperl.org

Those are some of the major ones. Being Perl, of course there's more.

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Bioperl is specific to biology/genomics to my knowledge although you could probably use it for other tasks. I'd use PDL if it had more use and support and was easier to setup, but it's a pain in that regard. I've tried installing it on windows via strawberry perl & activestate and won't be trying again after the 1/2 hour install repeatedly failed tests.

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