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Originally Posted by Boomer
Never mind
I just deleted my rather extensive questioning of Python and why I am wondering why it is free.
I do not have time to look into this further right now.
Boomer
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Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured, object-oriented and functional programming.
I don't what all that means, just show me how to use it like i'm 5 years old. . .
Python (programming language - Wikipedia)
That's the easy part. The hard part is that there are thousands of libraries / addins / packages which are customizations to do almost anything, written by real programmers. To be truthful, I can't understand most of the instructions provided with each package, so its google how do i do this in python.. . ChatGPT is also very helpful, though i don't trust it as it hasn't always worked for me.
The academic competitor is R software, which is very similar and can do almost anything as well. R is free as well.