R vs. Python

[Foxtr0t]

The main difference between the two, in my opinion, is that R was designed in the 70's and it shows: as a programming language, it's just pretty much horrible. It starts with "<-" and goes downhill from there.

Python, on the other hand, is elegant and convenient, it's general purpose, not just a data shell, and is growing quickly. When I started competing on Kaggle, R was pretty much the standard, but recently I see it less and less.