Comment on What is the best programming language?

Sat, 26 May 2012 08:02:49 GMT

Also, one shouldn't ignore the practical advantages of a batteries-included language (like Python) for enabling you to do things.

For example, if one wants to do some transformation of a spreadsheet which might be tricky or annoying to do in Excel/LibreOffice, one can just import csv and you've got a complete CSV file reader. Similarly, it's an import and 2 function calls to get a file off the internet.

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