I would hope this environment would facilitate programming by making it even easier to look up how a module/function was defined, and when developing code, to quickly/easily plot output graphically/interactively so as to see whether things are lining up or no.

I actually need a data visualization tool at my day job, so I've installed it there, and begun working through the documentation/tutorials --- hopefully it will facilitate my wrapping my mind around a better solution for a recursive description of systems at work _and_ making a graphical interactive version available to co-workers --- if that works out, I'll try it out on my personal project.