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Scala and Python for Apache Spark

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What is Scala?: Scala combines object-oriented and functional programming in one concise, high-level language. Scala's static types help avoid bugs in complex applications, and its JVM and JavaScript runtimes let you build high-performance systems with easy access to huge ecosystems of libraries. What is Python?: Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data structures, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together. Both Python and Scala programming languages offer a lot of productivity to programmers. They are useful tools among data scientists. Most learn both languages for Apache Spark. However, majority prefer Scala to