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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by dijksterhuis on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:07AM (#28521300)
Python is quite popular with the data / machine learning crowd. Think pandas, tensorflow etc.
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by Jensson on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:22AM (#28521422)
Python was popular before those libraries came out though. And then people wrote those libraries in Python because it was popular, making it more popular. People using popular languages to create platforms or on their platforms isn't evidence that having a platform is what drives language popularity.
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