Python Explosion Blamed On Pandas
Not content to bait developers by declaring that Python is the fastest-growing major programming language, coding community site Stack Overflow has revealed the reason for its metastasis. ... Programmers love pandas. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/14/python_explosion_blamed_on_pandas/>
I love Pandas but the speed of Go is just too good. It has package management issues though, like Python. Cheers, William. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Not content to bait developers by declaring that Python is the fastest-growing major programming language, coding community site Stack Overflow has revealed the reason for its metastasis.
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Programmers love pandas.
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I wrote:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/14/python_explosion_blamed_on_pandas/>
I like this reader comment <https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3290036>: when you play with big quantities of data in science, the speed is usually limited by inefficient code, not by inherent properties of the language. When I crunch my 5 GB dataset, making a for loop a little faster won't make my code run in a reasonable time -- but moving to a sparse data representation or avoiding the loop altogether will. Python makes those things easy, that's why it is a game changer for science.
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