Perhaps, though he states "In this area, it’s unfortunately hard to dispute that general-purpose scripting languages like Perl, Ruby, and Python, have much bett

Perhaps, though he states "In this area, it’s unfortunately hard to dispute that general-purpose scripting languages like Perl, Ruby, and Python, have much better language and library support in this area than any of the data-specific languages." It's also highly likely that most analysts reading this article know lots about Python (and Ruby), some about R, and little to nothing about Matlab, Octave, or Julia, unless they have an engineering background. (Yes, some analysts do have backgrounds other than CS/Eng/Physics!) So, I don't think it's glazing as much as it's trying to focus on the new and not the "yet again, someone telling me how to use Python for data, when I want to know if there's something even better...".