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Re: "Help me find my second language"
@jeang3nie That is an excellent comment ! Thank you for the suggestion
Sep 30 · 3 months ago
@ahappydeath That's really good to know ! haven't stumbled upon in it in any of my data analysis/stats rss feeds.
🐉 gyaradong · Oct 01 at 02:18:
it's a bit hard to recommend something when you hate python and it's the new language for data science, but you also want pragmatic advice on what's a popular choice for data science. Python is not a bad language. Try and figure out what you don't like about it.
@gyaradong I don't really know, to be honest. Something about the syntax (of the base python, not specific packages) just does not work well with my brain. It took me much less time to get used to the same lavel in R, and that was really my first language (not counting a short Pascal and Assembly experience some 15 years prior to this, which I have totally forgot by the time I started with R). Let's assume that syntax is the problem for a second. besides getting used to it, is there anything I could do ? like packages that provide alternative syntax ?
🐉 gyaradong · Oct 14 at 00:28:
Other languages exist, but the job market tends to be a laggard. By the time a language has already got several advantages for a task, the job market only just starts to transition. people in the industry have probably used a new languages for months or even years. It's Very hard to know what will be "next". Generally you'll have you passionately drive for a transition when you already have a job.
in short i would say:
for job, the only acceptable mainstream language for my taste today is go. it is modern, fast, well designed, safe, strongly typed, generates native code, has reasonably small syntax, influenced by languages i like.
for fun: ada, modula-3, oberon. i vote for oberon and feel free to ask me questions about it.
i expressed some thoughts here too:
Help me find my second language — Background I am a data analyst/scientist doing spatial and temporal ecology stuff. I only use R because...that is what I..know ? I was never a programmer before I switched from env. engineering and recently was thinking to diversify a bit to Julia. I have quote a lot of freedom in my current job to program in whatever I want. Occasionally I have to do it in python for the GIS people downstream. The people downstream complain a lot about Python being slow in...