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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by CuriouslyC on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:12PM (#37314181)
Some industries are stuck on matlab (jet propulsion, for example) but in general people from sciences are either Python or R, and SAS/SPSS are only really used in places like health care or pharma where there's a lot of regulation in place, because the software is designed around that regulation, unlike Python and R.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by dimask on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:12PM (#37315946)
It is also still quite dominant in neuroscientific fields, as there is a lot of software and code there from the past, but it is changing little by little.