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This is a question that can cause a thousand debates on the internet so before we get started we should make one thing clear. If the programming language is in the hands of a seasoned professional, then any one of these languages can be secured. Most of the security problems that come from certain languages are the fault of the programmer and not the actual language itself.

Suppose you have data describing a bunch of buildings and earthquakes (E.g., year the building was constructed, type of material used, the strength of earthquake, etc), and you know whether each building collapsed or not in each past earthquake. Using this data, you’d like to make predictions about whether a given building is going to collapse in a hypothetical future earthquake — you can see how this would be useful to say, insurance companies.