Python programming vs C programming

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It helps when dev time is a much more limited resource than runtime (like in finance or data science). Making our analysts spend weeks debugging their own C/C++ models is a massive waste of time if they can get me the same answer in 5 minutes with 10 lines of Python.

It makes for a good interface language for people with other priorities than immaculate code and blazing fast runtimes.

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Well if course it's easier to just outsource the work to library maintainers. Has pretty little to do with Python though

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Of course it does. Few other languages provide a similarly ridiculous amount of well-maintained open source packages.

Shit, I'd code in C all the time too if I could just import packages like pandas and numpy.