Created in 1985, Stata is a software that is built to handle statistics from the ground up. It comes with a lot of documentation and there are numerous tutorials to learn how to use it properly.

It is not, however, free. It is a proprietary software with its own internal logic, unrelated to the rest of the computer science world. Which means that the knowledge you acquire when learning to use it is not transferable.

Compare that to a programming language like Python, which is easy to learn, open-source and modular, and you will understand why learning even the most basic Python could be a positive game changer for you.