This is a long article written by  Sebastian Raschka. Sebastian Raschka is the author of the bestselling book “Python Machine Learning.” As a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, he is developing new computational methods in the field of computational biology. Sebastian has many years of experience with coding in Python and has given several seminars on the practical applications of data science and machine learning. 

The article has the following sections:

• The short answer to a complex question
• What are my favorite Python tools?
• What do I think about MATLAB?
• Julia is awesome … on paper!
• There is really nothing wrong with R
• What happened to Perl?
• Other options
• Is Python a dying language?
• Conclusion

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