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    • 3
      Customizable
    • 3
      Powerful scripting language
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      Widely adopted
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      Cross platform
    • 1.2K
      Great libraries
    • 964
      Readable code
    • 847
      Beautiful code
    • 788
      Rapid development
    • 691
      Large community
    • 438
      Open source
    • 393
      Elegant
    • 282
      Great community
    • 273
      Object oriented
    • 221
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 60
      Very fast
    • 55
      Functional programming
    • 51
      Easy to learn
    • 46
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 29
      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 24
      Simple is better than complex
    • 20
      It's the way I think
    • 19
      Imperative
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 18
      Free
    • 17
      Powerfull language
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      Machine learning support
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      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
    • 7
      Python has great libraries for data processing
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      Rapid Prototyping
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      Readability counts
    • 6
      Now is better than never
    • 6
      Great for tooling
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      Flat is better than nested
    • 6
      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      I love snakes
    • 6
      High Documented language
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      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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      Fast coding and good for competitions
    • 5
      Web scraping
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      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
    • 3
      Flexible and easy
    • 3
      Many types of collections
    • 3
      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
    • 3
      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
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      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
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      No cruft
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
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      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
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      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      A-to-Z
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      Because of Netflix
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      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
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      Batteries included
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      Good for hacking
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      Securit
    • 1
      Procedural programming
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      Best friend for NLP
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      Slow
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      Automation friendly
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      Sexy af
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      Ni
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      Keep it simple
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      Powerful

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    Cons of AWK
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      • 1
        Too Slow
      • 53
        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
      • 28
        Performance impact
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        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
      • 22
        GIL
      • 19
        Package management is a mess
      • 14
        Too imperative-oriented
      • 12
        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
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        Not everything is expression
      • 7
        Incredibly slow
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        Explicit self parameter in methods
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        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
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        Poor DSL capabilities
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        No anonymous functions
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        Fake object-oriented programming
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        Threading
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        The "lisp style" whitespaces
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        Official documentation is unclear.
      • 5
        Hard to obfuscate
      • 5
        Circular import
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        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
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        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
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        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)

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      What is AWK?

      A data-driven scripting language consisting of a set of actions to be taken against streams of textual data – either run directly on files or used as part of a pipeline – for purposes of extracting or transforming text, such as producing formatted reports.

      What is GNU Bash?

      The Bourne Again SHell is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.

      What is Python?

      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

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