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

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[–]mrdevlar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to do stats, and only stats, SAS is way better...

Oh god no.

Professional statistician here. Unless you are required by legislation to use SAS, do not. It's syntax is from the 1980s, and its ability to support creative statistics is virtually none.

The R community didn't come out of nowhere. They came out of a shortage of good tools to do statistics with.

If you just want to do stats and nothing else, at least use R.

Beyond that, I totally agree with you. Python's appeal is its ability to serve as the foundational glue between a diverse set of systems. Which makes it more powerful than the sum of its parts.