Analytics platform provider ActiveViam has released a new product featuring a Python layer around ActivePivot, its in-memory database. Allen Whipple, co-founder and managing director at ActiveViam, ...

Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

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ActiveState has updated its distributions of the Python programming language so that they provide developers easier access to databases, as well as new ways of creating GUIs (Graphical User ...