Many many many years ago, I wanted to use Mathematica, but I didn't like the language (just the algebra system, plotting, etc).

I wrote a python bridge, which was actually pretty cool. It's probably the neatest, cleanest, most CS-y code I've written (it converted Python objects to Mathematica objects over MathLink. It integrated with Numeric Python.

https://code.google.com/p/pymathematic/source/browse/trunk/e...