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I'm fairly sure that the average programmer today writes scripts for processing data in Python (or in R, Matlab, or something like that). Software engineers, da

I'm fairly sure that the average programmer today writes scripts for processing data in Python (or in R, Matlab, or something like that). Software engineers, data scientists, and other similar professionals who define themselves by their skills rather than their field are already a minority among programmers. Or maybe I'm just spending too much time with biologists.

Karrot_Kream 5y ago
It's true, but my guess is that folks working in software companies don't see much of this. Social scientists alone are running things through Excel/R/SAS all day, let alone more quantitative fields. Software has eaten the world so to speak, it's a subset of "computer science" folks who haven't realized it yet.