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by chthonicdaemon 744 days ago
Languages aren't just good or bad in the abstract. It's about problem-tool fit. The author mentions a specific field and evaluates the fit of R and Python. Do you believe there is a language with better fit to Bioinformatics? I'd like to hear your recommendation.
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> Languages aren't just good or bad in the abstract.

I don't know about that. There's certainly no "perfect" language, but to claim that python is brilliant or elegant language design is to not know a whole log about PL design.

I think I'm mainly getting downvoted because Python is popular, and people think that means it must be inherently good.