Personally, the opposite is true for me - case in point: python. I really dislike both the semantics and syntax of python. However, the scientific computing li

Personally, the opposite is true for me - case in point: python. I really dislike both the semantics and syntax of python. However, the scientific computing libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, etc) are just too productive to turn away from for quick data analysis tasks. If these libraries didn't exist, I wouldn't touch python with a 500-foot pole.