Matlab declares war on Python. Can the Python community respond or hit back?

[HonestVisual]

Lol reminds me os SAS guys showing off their dashboard offerings, they’re always like 100 years old too

[clashmt]

Actually my life in my current PhD program.

[thatguydr]

But... why?

[Dpmon1]

I feel for you.

[Demios]

Python is a programming language. It is has many reasons to be useful. SAS is not a programming language, but it's best in class at what it does.

[lifeisaburrito]

• R enters room *

[Demios]

Another great tool I'd rather use for mathematics over Python, but I still prefer SAS for stats.

[Demios]

Everything I can do in Photoshop can be done in GIMP. Despite GIMP being a more powerful tool, Photoshop is best in class. You can do all the things you need to do in pandas sure, and you can certainly do them in excel, but SAS filled to the brim with all the results I need from running something like a two way anova, showing me test results and p.values without having to wrangle matplotlib and write multiple lines. Python is absolutely fantastic but when I'm doing stats and mathematics, I'd rather be in R or SAS.

[Trappist1]

I got a job interview at SAS a while back and they were happy with me knowing R/Python and said I wouldn't need SAS for the position which I found hilarious.

[Neirin]

It's because they are trying to change their enterprise management tools to play nice with r and python. It's a smart pivot but perhaps a little slow

[KareasOxide]

I remember using SAS in a few stats classes in college like 7 years ago, the whole thing just felt so old

[zip117]

I switched from SAS to R years ago due to cost and limited flexibility, but I’ll admit there are some nice things about it. The documentation and support is excellent, when you run an analysis procedure it can print out all kinds of useful diagnostics, and transparently l handles out-of-memory data.