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Is there any reason you chose R over Python? Is it just because that’s the go to language?

• delusional 5y ago
  We asked the people are going to be using it what they'd prefer. Many of them are recent graduates, and they told us they mostly used R during their university courses. It's just a pure familiarity play. The alternative was building a huge system on a mainframe (we're a legacy bank). Really there wasn't a lot of thought put into the language. We figure that if it ends up being a total failure, we can just pivot.