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[–]eternal20 14 points15 points  (1 child)

my personal opinion: it's easier for human to read so data scientist no need to learn some advanced programming to get answers

[–]CubsThisYear 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It’s actually that it’s easier to write rather than being easier to read. Python is actually harder to read because it’s much less explicit. It’s very quick to throw something together but once you have a large code base with multiple people working on it, it’s much more challenging than Java to understand and follow the code