[jimmytucson]

Son, I hope you never have the displeasure of working in an enterprise environment.

First of all, as others mentioned, your personal machine runs on Windows so right off the bat there goes your instant virtualenv, pip install.

Even on the Unix app server, you're probably behind a firewall that's tight as a duck's ass so chances are you're downloading the tar ball and making the package yourself.

Third, wtf are you doing littering the app server with all these binaries? And what is Python? I'm sorry, no, rewrite this in Java, please.

If you do manage to convince your manager and the rest of your team that Python is not black magic, the first time numpy breaks or some small issue crops up or you have to migrate to a new server and reinstall numpy but now there's a new version and... GTFO of here with that black magic.

I agree with you, developing websites on your MacBook Pro there's no excuse not being able to install numpy. In the real world though, having basic necessities in stdlib does absolute wonders.