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by FranzFerdiNaN 2546 days ago
Python "winning" has more to do with it being taught at pretty much every university in into CS courses these days and less with it being a better suited language for it. Besides, outside data science R still reigns supreme when it comes to statistics. Data science is a hype right now, but 99% of what is called data science is basic statistics. Python is also rarely being taught in biology, or economy or psychology departments. Its either R or Stata or so.