> Indeed, and because it doesn't support closures, it's not a true functional programming language either. And because you have to import all sorts of modules to do the simplest things (e.g., regular expressions), neither is it a true scripting language. Indeed, because it doesn't support labeled break or continue statements, it's not even a true structured programming language.
I think the point is, trying to classify programming languages (except domain specific ones like SQL or maybe PHP) is kind of pointless.
But to answer your real question, Python is one of the top languages in number crunching. After web work, that's Python's second biggest niche.
> Indeed, and because it doesn't support closures, it's not a true functional programming language either. And because you have to import all sorts of modules to do the simplest things (e.g., regular expressions), neither is it a true scripting language. Indeed, because it doesn't support labeled break or continue statements, it's not even a true structured programming language.
I think the point is, trying to classify programming languages (except domain specific ones like SQL or maybe PHP) is kind of pointless.
But to answer your real question, Python is one of the top languages in number crunching. After web work, that's Python's second biggest niche.