Comment by hekkle

> What makes Python a great language for data science, is that so many people are familiar with it

While I agree with you in principal this also leads to what I call the "VB Effect". Back in the day VB was taught at every school as part of the standard curriculum. This made every kid a 'computer wizz'. I have had to fix many a legacy codebase that was started by someone's nephew the whizz kid.