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- Great libraries1.2K
- Readable code951
- Beautiful code837
- Rapid development781
- Large community684
- Open source428
- Elegant387
- Great community279
- Object oriented270
- Dynamic typing215
- Great standard library76
- Very fast57
- Functional programming52
- Easy to learn45
- Scientific computing44
- Great documentation34
- Matlab alternative27
- Easy to read26
- Productivity26
- Simple is better than complex22
- It's the way I think19
- Imperative18
- Free17
- Very programmer and non-programmer friendly16
- Powerfull language15
- Machine learning support15
- Fast and simple14
- Powerful14
- Scripting13
- Explicit is better than implicit10
- Clear and easy and powerfull9
- Unlimited power9
- Ease of development9
- Import antigravity8
- It's lean and fun to code7
- Print "life is short, use python"7
- Great for tooling6
- Fast coding and good for competitions6
- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious6
- Although practicality beats purity6
- Python has great libraries for data processing6
- Flat is better than nested6
- High Documented language6
- I love snakes6
- Now is better than never5
- Readability counts5
- Rapid Prototyping5
- Complex is better than complicated4
- Web scraping4
- CG industry needs4
- Great for analytics4
- Socially engaged community4
- Lists, tuples, dictionaries4
- Multiple Inheritence4
- Beautiful is better than ugly4
- Plotting4
- Simple and easy to learn3
- Generators3
- Easy to learn and use3
- Many types of collections3
- No cruft3
- List comprehensions3
- Pip install everything3
- Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules3
- If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id3
- If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g3
- Easy to setup and run smooth3
- Import this3
- Shitty2
- Flexible and easy2
- It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi2
- Batteries included2
- Can understand easily who are new to programming2
- Powerful language for AI2
- Should START with this but not STICK with This2
- A-to-Z2
- Because of Netflix2
- Only one way to do it2
- Better outcome2
- Good for hacking2
- Powerful0
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Cons of Python
- Still divided between python 2 and python 351
- Performance impact28
- Poor syntax for anonymous functions26
- GIL21
- Package management is a mess19
- Too imperative-oriented14
- Hard to understand12
- Dynamic typing12
- Very slow11
- Not everything is expression8
- Indentations matter a lot7
- Explicit self parameter in methods7
- Incredibly slow7
- Requires C functions for dynamic modules6
- Poor DSL capabilities6
- No anonymous functions6
- Official documentation is unclear.5
- The "lisp style" whitespaces5
- Fake object-oriented programming5
- Hard to obfuscate5
- Threading5
- Circular import4
- The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit4
- Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"4
- Not suitable for autocomplete4
- Meta classes2
- Training wheels (forced indentation)1
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What is AWK?
A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.
What is Python?
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
What is Stan?
A state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Used for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.
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