Interesting Computational Tools:

• Python is an outstanding tool for doing a variety of jobs in scientific programming. However, the documentation of many useful Python packages is scattered across the internet and in many cases is not useful to the beginner. I am putting together some notes on the scientific use of Python for my own benefit. In the hope that it may be useful to others, It is available in html and pdf forms.
• We use subversion to store and version software.
• Candis is a collection of programs written in C and Python to analyze and display atmospheric science data.
• Ncoct is a module written by Beverly Davis for the Octave language, which allows Octave to read and write NetCDF files.
• Have you tried SISAL? SISAL is a functional language created especially for numerical modeling. The language is basically dead at this point, which is too bad, as it has significant strong points.