Python continues to build momentum, approaching the Top 3 in the Tiobe language popularity index after having already scaled to the top of language ratings from IEEE and PyPL. Python, which has ...

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This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts ... core component of good data journalism. But disagreement persists over which programming language is best. Is it R or Python?