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by joeclark77 3446 days ago
In Python you can code an MMO, manipulate a database, set off a Hadoop job processing petabyes of big data in parallel on a thousand servers, conduct statistical analysis on the result set, generate beautiful and meaningful data visualizations, run a web server to make your program accessible to the world, stick an API onto it, and give artificial intelligence to a robot. As Heinlein wrote, "Specialization is for insects."