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A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

For the first time in Tiobe's long-running index, 35-year-old Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most popular programming language. Python, a top choice for data-science and machine ...

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