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		username135 59 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python is not a great language for data science you beat me to it. i understand why sas gets hate but I think that comes with simply not understanding how powerful it is.

garciasn 59 days ago [–]

It was a great language, but it was/is extremely cost-prohibitive plus it simply fell out of favor in academia, for many of the same reasons, and thus was supplanted by free alternatives.

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