New guy with a question.

I'm currently a student studying oil and gas engineering. I'm trying to learn as much as I can about finance. I've read multiple times that you should be able to work well with excel and C++ for trading. I can understand excel but why C++? Would any basic programming language be sufficient like say python or is it specifically C++? Why do traders have to have knowledge of a programming language at all? What do they use it for?

Thanks

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