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On the other hand, the scientific community certainly does not carry out an ongoing switch between JavaScript and Python, as the author percieves in the web world.

Python is an ideal example of a scripting language that got so popular in so many areas that it is hard to say who uses it for what. Pupils use it for getting familiar with programming. Many standard linux distribution tools are written in Python. There is so much beyond web development and scientific applications.



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