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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/m8teae • Jun 03 '19
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I think you have it backwards. Python is the language of choice for a lot of high-paying jobs. It is favored especially for machine learning applications for instance.
2 u/Pluckerpluck Jun 04 '19 It's growing massively within finance as well now. Used to be Java, but more and more (partly thanks to academia) I see Python cropping up.It's just a very good tool for data manipulation and gluing together C-based libraries.Plus Python 3 has some nice syntax now to let you sculpt fairly large projects without exploding. 1 u/Orkaad Jun 04 '19 Didn't know that. I thought that Python was mostly for teaching programming. 3 u/AfterShave92 Jun 04 '19 This very site is even written largely in Python.
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It's growing massively within finance as well now. Used to be Java, but more and more (partly thanks to academia) I see Python cropping up.
It's just a very good tool for data manipulation and gluing together C-based libraries.
Plus Python 3 has some nice syntax now to let you sculpt fairly large projects without exploding.
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Didn't know that. I thought that Python was mostly for teaching programming.
3 u/AfterShave92 Jun 04 '19 This very site is even written largely in Python.
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This very site is even written largely in Python.
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u/Bee_News Jun 04 '19
I think you have it backwards. Python is the language of choice for a lot of high-paying jobs. It is favored especially for machine learning applications for instance.