what is python useful for?

bash is better for scripts
node/go/ruby is better for web/networking
R is better for math/statistics

doesnt even support basic higher order programming

fioc a shit

I would say unless you need the latest and most advanced algorithms (which run like shit on data sets bigger than 1gb) then numpy/pandas is way better than R, especially if you are building applications, not exploratory work. Most of the work in data analysis is cleaning, and having a language with good string manipulation is very helpful.

https://sites.google.com/site/gappy3000/home/pandas_r

also R indexes from one.

nothing, because javascript does everything better

>bash is better for scripts
Not if your scripts do more than rename your porn

>2012
>Use le bash for script
ISHYGDDT

>>5,6
Today, I tried to make one of my uglier Bourne scripts neater by breaking up a very long find command line into separate variables. The command line included many glob characters which I wanted to pass to find without expansion. There was a decent amount of duplicated information in the the arguments, so I also added a few short for loops to approximate Bash's brace expansion.

I wasted almost an hour on this before I concluded that there was no way to do what I wanted without adding enough escaping and requoting to render the variable text totally unreadable, thus defeating my original purpose.

I guess it's about time I went down to the bookstore and got myself a copy of the Camel book.

General system scripts, web service back end programming, math.

>>8
Perl does all of these things better.

>>7
There was no point in doing that.