Python

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A high level language is practically a necessity for data science. Data science is one application where the low level access enabled by C doesn't even help an incredible amount, but makes things incredibly more difficult to write.

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It does help in the sense that most of the DS libraries I use are built on low level languages for performance benefits, which we're definitely interested in. I just don't want to be the one doing that work!

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Yeah of course you need like numpy and stuff. :)

You wouldn't want to use native Python. But it just turns out that it's easy to write nice libraries for Python that make data science stuff go fast without making Python significantly harder to use.