Comment Re: its GIS (Score 1) 177
At my college around the turn of the century the first language taught was C, then C++, Java, VB 6, Bash scripting. I ended up working on the business side of things rather than coding, but today I write Python scripts for data analysis.
Pythonâ(TM)s popularity might be due to non-coders using it. Iâ(TM)ll often use Python with Pandas to clean data that I might have used Excel or Tableau in the past and for data visualization, and generating documentation that will be printed in a report or otherwise non-interactive, again, Iâ(TM)ll use Python over Tableau.