>>109146109
AI-s 1st programming language

>>109146109
I have a PhD and I use it a lot, so what can I say?

If you don't have any clue how to solve the problem when you set out it really helps being able to nigger rig shit up on the fly using omnipotent runtime introspection and monkey patching. but without the accursed weak type system of something like javascript.

when my prototype is done and I need to make it fast I can simply port it to C++ using most of the same abstractions but without as much introspection and ease of debugging.

nothing wrong with children using a programming language

Kek it's funny, my Physics Professor swore by Python. All his research was made on Python.
/g/ btfo again

>>109146109
children and phds are no coders, so python is a right fit

>>109148448
I write a lot of code in C and C++. I still use python for making the computer do things whenever I don't have any particular reason not to.

t. phd

>>109146109
I have a PhD. Python's not my favorite programming language, but it's probably the one I use the most. If you do anything with machine learning or data science, Python is where all of your libraries are at. Do there exist equivalents in other languages? Sure. You can write Tensorflow or Torch in C++ to your heart's content. But you have a conference deadline. As much as one may enjoy programming, your deliverable is a paper, not a program. The program is merely the means to acquire results for the paper.

If I can find any excuse to not use Python, I'll do it. But deadlines are a bitch.

>>109146109
I am neither and it's not my favorite programming language. It's got some good ideas, but a lot of bad ones too.
What it does have is a lot of good libraries written for it. If you're doing anything practical, that makes a big difference. (Same reason why people keep using js+npm, though for a different ecosystem.)

>>109146191
All Physics professors I know use Fortran extensively. I've never heard even one of them mentioning Python.

>>109146109
because it just works